Annotation:Coal Valley
X:1
T:Coal Valley
S:The Stripling Brothers, Charlie (1896-1966) and Ira (1898-1967), west Alabama.
M:C|
L:1/8
Q:"Moderate"
R:Country Rag
D:Decca 5547 (78 RPM), The Stripling Brothers (1936)
F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/coal-valley
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
K:C
+slide+cage- edc2|+slide+cage- edc2|+slide+FdcA- AGF2|+slide+FdcA- AGF2|
BABa- age2|+slide+BABA- AB2 (d|e2)c2A2G2|+slide+cage- edc2|
+slide+cage- edc2|+slide+FdcA- AGF2|+slide+FdcA- AGF2|BABa- age2|
+slide+BABA- AB2 (B|c2) A2 GE3|{B}c2||(_E2=E)G A2|G2 cA EGA2|
[M:2/4]G2c2 |[M:C|]FGAd- dcAF-|FA2c d2Ac|BABa- age2| +slide+BABA- AB2 d-|
e2c2A2GG|EEAG- GGcA| GcAE G2c2|FGAd- dcAF-|
FA2c d2Ac|BABa- age2| +slide+BABA- AB2 B-| c2A2 GE3|[M:2/4]c2 AB||"last"c4||
COAL VALLEY. Old-Time, Country Rag or Two-Step (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Recorded by Lamar County, west Alabama fiddler Charlie Stripling (1896-1966) for Decca Records in a March, 1936, session in New Orleans. The tune was named for a mining camp where Charlie and his brother Ira (1898-1967), The Stripling Brothers, performed. Stripling composed this and other tunes (see "Kennedy Rag") in a form he characterized as a "ragtime-breakdown" in response to the demand form more modern dances, such as the Fox Trot and Two-Step.