Annotation:Kennedy Rag
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KENNEDY RAG. Old-Time, Country Rag. USA, Alabama. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. Composed by fiddler Charlie Stripling [1], and named for Kennedy, his Pickens County, Alabama, hometown (population 277 at that time of the release of the recording in 1929).
Sources for notated versions: Charlie Stripling (Alabama) [Milliner & Koken, Phillips]; Lee Stripling (1921-2009,Seattle), learned from his father Charlie [Silberberg].
Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 357. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 71. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 82.
Recorded sources: County 401, The Stripling Brothers -"Lost Child" (1971). Document DOCD 8007, "The Stripling Brothers vol. 1." Vocalion 5382 (78 RPM), Stripling Brothers (Alabama) {1929}.
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