Annotation:Smoky Row

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X:1 T:Smoky Row T:Smokey Row [1] S:Doc Roberts (1897-1978, Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Quick" D:Champion Records 15564 (78 RPM), Fiddlin' Jim Burke (1928) N:Jim Burke was a pseudonym for Doc Roberts F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/smoky-row Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G ga |bgaf g2d2|efge d2ga|bgaf g2gd|e2d4 g(a| b)gaf g2ag|efge dged|BAGB AGEG|1[M:3/2]A2 G4 [G,4D4]:|2[M:C|]A2G4|| |:dc|BAGB AGEG|DEGA Bcdc|BAGB AGE-G|A2G4:| ([Dd]c|[D2B2])GB- AG2B|AG[GB]A Bcd(c|B2) GB- AGE-G|A2 G4||

SMOKY ROW. AKA - "Smokey Row (1)." American, Reel (cut or 2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was recorded by Fiddlin' Doc Roberts (1897-1978, Madison County, Ky.) and guitarist Asa Martin in Richmond, Indiana, in May, 1928. It was released on both the Gennett and Champion labels, albeit on the later Jim Burke was used as a pseudonym for Roberts on the label. The source of the title remains unclear. There was a Smoky Row in the city of Nashville, Tenn., since before the Civil War; it was the city’s red-light district, a two-block area where women engaged in the sex trade entertained farmers and merchants in town on business. There was a similar "Smoky Row" in Memphis serving the river trade, and undoubtedly other 'Smoky Rows'.

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Recorded sources: - Champion Records 15564 (78 RPM), Fiddlin' Jim Burke (1928). Document Records DOCD-8042, "Fiddlin' Doc Roberts: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, vol. 1 (1925-1928)" (1999). Gennett 6588 (78 RPM), Doc Roberts (1928).

See also listing at:
Hear Doc Roberts' 1928 recording at Slippery Hill [1]
Hear Jim Woodward's 1979 field recording at Berea Digital Archives [2]

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