Annotation:Tommy Love

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X:1 T:Tommy Love N:From the playing of fiddler and farmer Dudley "Babe" Spangler (1885-1981, Meadows of Dan, N:Patrick County, southwestern Virginia) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:" " D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/tommy-love-0 D:County 201, Old Virginia Fiddlers - "Old Time Fiddle Patrick County, Va." Z:Andrew Kuntz K:D e-|f2a2 a3f|d2f2-f2(fg|a2)a2 gfe2|df3 d2f2-| fef-ga2 af|d2f2 d2(fg|a2)a2 gfe2|d3B d2|| (e|fgf2)e3g| fe d2 BABc|d2f2 df-e2|d3B d3:|]

TOMMY LOVE. AKA and see "John Lover," "John Lover's Gone," "John's Lover's Gone," "John the Lover," "Poor Johnny's gone to War." Old Time, Breakdown. Standard tuning. A popular band piece and dance tune in the N.C./Va. Blue Ridge region, known particularly as "Tommy Love" in the Patrick County, Va. area.

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Recorded sources: -County 201, The Old Virginia Fiddlers (Patrick County, Va.) - "Rare Recordings, 1948 49." Field Recorder Collective FRC106, "The Kimble and Wagoner Families" (2006). Flying Cloud FC-023, Kirk Sutphin - "Fiddlin' Around." Heritage/Galax LP 022, The Kimble Family - "Eighty Miles Apart" (1978). Marimac 9036, The Kimble Family - "Carroll County Pioneers" (1992). Rounder 0057, Delmar Pendleton (Lone Ivy section, Woolwine, Patrick County, Va.) "Old Originals, vol. 1" (1978).

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear Taylor Kimble's field recording at Slippery Hill [2]

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