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LAKE ERIE. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. A Major (Sharp): D Major (Songer). A fiddle tune from the repertoire of Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee, fiddler John Sharp (1894-1964) from Sharp Place Community near Jamestown. Sharp formed the Kentucky Wildcats with banjo player Virgil Anderson. He was recorded on a home wire machine in the late 1940's by his neighbor, the Sergeant Alvin York, a hero of World War I. The tune was originally in 'A' modal, however, Blech moved it to the key of 'D' as he felt in played better. Similar in the first strain to "Bile Them Cabbage Down."
Source for notated version: fiddler Kerry Blech (Florida) [Songer].
Printed sources: Songer (Portland Collection, vol. 2), 2005; p. 115.
Recorded sources:
Bruce Molsky & Bob Carlin – "Take Me as I Am" (1983. Appears as 2nd of "John Sharp's Tunes").
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
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