Annotation:Sweet Milk and Peaches
X:1 T:Sweet Milk and Peaches S:Willie Narmour (1889-1961) and Shellie Smith (1895-1968) (Carroll County, Mississippi) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel N:Parts are played at will on the recording: sometimes doubled, sometime not, N:sometimes only the first four bars are played before going on to the next part. D:OKeh 45424 (78 RPM), Narmour & Smith (1929) D:Bluebird B-5616 (78 RPM), Narmour & Smith (1934) F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/sweet-milk-peaches Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:D [Af]-[A3a3] afde-|f2 aa b2a2|aab(e fe)d(e|fe)Bd ed3| (fa2a) a2 de|ffaa b2a2|+slide+d'4d'2 aa| f-edd e(dBd)|e2d2|| +slide+[A3A3](A Bc)d(d|BA)FD E D3|FAA(B AB)dg|fdd2 e2d2| +slide+[A3A3](A Bc)d(d|BA)FD E2 D2|+slide+F3E D2B,2|{G,}A,A,B,2 ED3| [EA]-[F2A2]E D2+slide+[D2D2]-|[DD]DFD E2 D4|[D2D2]FD EDB,B,|A,B,DF ED3|]
SWEET MILK AND PEACHES. American, Reel (cut time). USA; Mississippi, Alabama. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'C. A tune by this name was played by Rock Ridge, Alabama, fiddlers around 1920 (Bailey), so the tune may not have been original with Mississippi fiddle biography:Willie Narmour. Mississippi fiddling expert Harry Bolick traces the tune to an African-American fiddler named Alan Alsop. The reel was originally recorded by Narmour and his playing partner, Shellie Smith (1895-1968), for Okeh Records in 1929. The popular duo recorded for Okeh from 1928 until the collapse of the company in the early 1930's, then were signed with Victor Records in 1934. While with Victor they re-recorded sixteen of their most popular tunes, including "Sweet Milk and Peaches"; thus the reel by Narmour and Smith appears on both OKeh recordings (1929) and Victor recordings (1934, released on Victor's subsidiary label, Bluebird Records). The 1934 recording has a more relaxed tempo and the parts are more regular.