Annotation:Sweet Susan
X:1 T:Sweet Susan N:from the playing of left-hand fiddler Bill Day/Jilson Setters (1861-1942), recorded in N:Ashland, Ky., June, 1937, in the field by John A. Lomax for the Library of Congress. %N:Jilson Setters was the pseudonym for Blind Bill Day, heavily marketed by folklorist %N:Jean Thomas, who created his persona. M:C| L:1/8 Q:"Fast" R:Reel D:Library of Congress AFS 01019 A02, Jilson Setters (1937) D:https://archive.org/details/afc1937007_1017B2 D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/sweet-susan-0 Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G V:1 clef=treble name="1." [V:1] [M:2/4][G,2D2]e-f|[M:C|]ggg2 aaa2|a-bag edef|ggg2a2a2|{a}bage d2ef| ggg2 aaa2|abag edef|ggg2aaa2|b-age d4|| e6 e2-|e2gg e2d2|BGAB dBAB|G2A2 Bded|BGAG EGAE| G2 Ad Bded|BGAB d2e2|G2A2 Bded |BGAG (3EFE D2| G2A2 Bded|BGAB dBAB|G2D2 Bded|BGAG E2D2||
SWEET SUSAN. AKA – “Susan’s Gone.” American, Reel (cut time). USA, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Titon (Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 158, p. 183.Library of Congress 1019A2, Jilson Setters/J.W. Day (Ky.), recorded for L of C by John Lomax in Ashland, Ky., 1937. Rounder 0380, Roger Cooper – “Going Back to Old Kentucky” (1997).
