Annotation:Jim Shanks

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JIM SHANK(S). AKA - "Jimmy Shenk." Old-Time, Breakdown. A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A southern Kentucky tune in the repertoire of fiddler Bruce Greene. See also the similar tune "Henry Richmond." Kerry Blech suspects the title may have derived from a mishearing of 'Gin Seng'.

Source for notated version: Sam Dyer (Macon County, Tennessee) [Milliner & Koken].

Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 335.

Recorded sources: New Timey 2003, Ken Bloom and Harry Bollick - "That Banjo from Hell: Fiddle Tunes & Uncivil Songs of Conflict."

See also listing at:
Hear Sam Dyer play the tune in a 1972 field recording by Bruce Greene at Berea Digital Content [1]



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