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LITTLE LIZA JANE [1]. AKA and see "Liza Jane (3)," "Poor Liza Jane." American, Reel (cut time). USA, northeast Kentucky. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A variant of the "Liza Jane" tune family, from the playing of Rush, Kentucky, fiddler J.P. Fraley [1] and other regional northeast Kentucky fiddlers. Titon (2001) finds the tune similar to "Jenny Get Around."
The title "Little Liza Jane" appears in a list of traditonal Ozarks Mountains fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954 (although the descriptor "little" may have been place in front of any of the "Liza Jane" [2] variants).
Additional notes
Source for notated version : - J.P. Fraley (1923-2011)
Source for notated version: J.P. Fraley (Rush, Kentucky) [Brody, Phillips].
Printed sources : - Beisswenger & Andrade (Appalachian Fiddle Tunes), 2021; p. 55. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 171. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 143. Spadaro (10 Cents a Dance), 1980; p. 36 (appears as "Poor Liza Jane").
Recorded sources : - Field Recorders Collective FRC731, Emma Lee Dickerson - "Along the Ohio's Shores" (2003). Rounder 0037, J.P. and Annadeene Fraley- "Wild Rose of the Mountain." Biograph 6007, Ebenezer- "Tell It To Me."
See also listing at : Hear the tune played by Bo Bradham and Peter Jung at Berea Digital Archives [3]
Hear Emma Lee Dickerson's 1974 field recording by Barbara Kunkle at Bearea Sound Archives [4] and Slippery Hill [5]
