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FOUR MILES TO CUMBERLAND. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; North Carolina. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.

Glen Smith (1923-2001). Photo by Michael Keller


Tommy Hunter (N.C.) learned the tune from his grandfather, and it may be that Smith picked it up from Hunter's recording. Smith's home in Wirt County, West Virginia is more than 300 miles from Madison County, North Carolina, and its unlikely Smith learned it from sources local to him.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources:

Recorded sources: June Appal 007, Tommy Hunter - "Deep in Tradition" (1976. Learned from his grandfather, James W. Hunter, Madison County, N.C.). Roane Records, Glen Smith - "Four Miles to Cumberland" (1993).

See also listing at:
Hear Tommy Hunter's 1976 recording at youtube.com [1]
Hear Glen Smith's 1993 recording at Slippery Hill [2] and at youtube.com [3]



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