Annotation:Hometown Blues

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HOMETOWN BLUES. American, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. "Bob's Special" and "Lee Highway Blues" are related tunes. In fact, an inter-weaving of "Hometown Blues" and "Lee Highway Blues" has been recorded by fiddler Art Wooten, and by the New Lost City Ramblers (on their 1973 album "Remembrance of Things to Come", Folkways FTS 31035). The melody was recorded October, 1928, in Johnson City, Tennessee, by the group the Roane County Ramblers (from Roane County, Tennessee, in the heart of coal country). At the time the group consisted of Luke Brandon (guitar), Howard Wyatt (banjo), John Kelly (mandolin) and Jimmy McCarroll (fiddle).

Source for notated version: Roane County Ramblers [Milliner & Koken]

Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 302.

Recorded sources: Columbia 15328 (78 RPM), Roane County Ramblers (1928). County 403/County CD 3530, "Roane County Ramblers".

See also listing at
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear the Roane County Ramblers 1928 recording at Slippery Hill [2]



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