Annotation:Wine's Delight
X:1 T:Wine's Delight M:C| L:1/8 S:Melvin Wine (1909-2003, Braxton County, W. Va.) R:Reel D:Augusta Heritage 021, Melvin Wine - Hannah at the Springhouse (1989) F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/wines-delight Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A ((3efg|a2) ag a2e2|Acec A2d2-|ddfd dcBA|=GABd- d2((3efg| a2)a>(g a2)ee|Acec (Ac)ec|efgf edcB|A2 AB A2:| |:(c2|+slide+[e2e2]) ef ecA2|d[df][df][df] fafe|A2 [ce][ce] (Ac)[ce][ce]|B2 (c/B/A) B2 (c[de]| [e2e2])ef ecA2|d[df][df][df] fgaf|e>agf edcB|A2AB A2:|]
WINE'S DELIGHT. AKA - "N____'s Delight," "Watermelon Pie." American, Reel (cut time). A Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Wine's Delight" is a tune West Virginia fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003), who lived all his life in Copen, Braxton County. The original title is "N____'s Delight" (the obvious racial slur), and it was so listed on a cassette tape of the Glenville Hotel (W.Va.) jam in 1976 [1]; Melvin was among the musicians, with Jeff Joehring, Armin Barnett, Pete Hoover, Carl Baron, Dave Milk and T. Marcus. The Canote Brothers and west coast old-time musicians renamed it "Watermelon Pie" when learning it in the 1970's, but that name was supplanted when "Wine's Delight" (from an unknown source) caught on as a title. Wine himself adopted the 'Watermelon' title in pubic, but introduced it from the stage at the 1982 Fiddle Tunes Festival concert conflating the titles "N___'s/Wine's Delight" and "Watermelon Pie" and announced it as "Watermelon Delight."
- ↑ John T. Huddle Collection, Audiocassette FS-20280/3479, Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.