Annotation:Evening Shade
Tune properties and standard notation
EVENING SHADE. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Tennessee. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A slower tempo than the usual breakdown speed. On a home recording by Arthur Smith's son Ernest the tune is entitled "Evening Shade Falling," though on Smith's LP it is listed simply as "Evening Shade."
Source for notated version: Fiddlin' Arthur Smith (Tenn.) [Phillips].
Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 48.
Recorded sources: Folkways FTS-31007, The McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith - "Milk 'Em in the Evenin' Blues" (1968)
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]