Annotation:Nicodemus Johnson's Reel

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NICODEMUS JOHNSON'S REEL. American, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A blackface minstrel tune printed c. 1865. Don Meade finds the tune reprinted in Ditson's Minstrel Songs Old and New, 1883, the same year Ryan's Mammoth was published.

Nicodemus Johnson, published by Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston, 1865.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 35. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 62.

Recorded sources:

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