Annotation:Old Jake Gillie
X:1 T:Old Jake Gilly S:Clark Kessinger (W.Va.) M:C| L:1/8 D: F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/old-jake-gillie Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:D f2fa f2d2|fded- d3(e|f)afe dfed|(BA)FE D3((3A/B/c/| d)efd e2d2|fded- d3(e|f)afe dfed|(BA)FE D3|| (E|F)ABF .A2BA|FBAF (E/F/E)DE|FABF AcBF|AF(EF) D3(E| F2)BF AFBF|FBAF [E2A2]DE|FABF AcBF|AF(EF) D3(e|| f2)a2 f2 de|fde(d d3)(=f|^f)afe dfed|(BA)FE D3((3A/B/c/| d)efd e2de|fded- d3(=f|^f)afe dfed|(BA)FE D3(f|| a2)ab a2f2|abaf edfg|a2ab a+slide+g2(e|f)de(d d3)(e| a2)a2 a2fg|abaf edfg|a2 ag a2g2|fde(d d4)||
OLD JAKE GILLIE. AKA - "Jake Gilly." AKA and see "Jake Gillie." American, Reel. USA; Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'AACC. A West-Virginia/Kentucky regional tune (Charles Wolfe, 1997). The tune was recorded on a 78 RPM for Brunswick by Kanawha County, West Virginia, fiddler Clark Kessinger (1896-1975), who probably learned while growing up in the Kanawha Valley (Wolfe, Mountains of Music, 1999). See also the tune under the title "Jake Gilly/Gillie." Other old-time musicians in whose repertoire "Jake Gilly" was include Matokie Slaughter, of Pulaski, Va., best-known as a fine banjo player, but she also played tunes on the fiddle, including the "Gilly" tune. Oscar Wright's "Jake Gillie" (recorded on County LP 717) is also cognate. It was in the repertoire as well of fiddler Norman Edmonds (Hillsville, Va.) who played it on his c. 1950's radio shows, some of which were recorded. Some (e.g. Krassen) have noticed a general resemblance between the low strain of this tune and the low part of "Eighth of January (The)," but others demur. See also the Midwest (Nebraska, Missouri) variant "Jake's Best Reel."
