Annotation:Wandering Boy

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WANDERING BOY. Old Time, Air (4/4 time). USA, western North Carolina. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is sourced to the 1927 solo fiddle recording of Dobson, Surry County, North Carolina, fiddler and banjo player Frank Jenkins (1888-c.1945) of the group Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters. The Carter Family recorded a song called "Wandering Boy," but it employs a different melody.

Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters. Frank Jenkins is the banjo player to the far right.

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Recorded sources: Gennett Records 6165 (78 RPM), Frank Jenkins (1927). Document Records DOCD 8023, "Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters & Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers (1927-1929)" (2005). Flying Fish FF 334, The Red Clay Ramblers “It Ain’t Right” (1986. Learned from the playing of Tommy Jarrell and Frank Jenkins).

See also listing at:
Hear Frank Jenkins' 78 RPM on youtube.com [1]
Hear/see Adam Hurt's banjo version on youtube.com [2]

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