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LITTLE BLACK MUSTACHE [2]. AKA - "Black Mustache." Old-Time, Breakdown. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Source Gene Clardy, a fiddler from Mississippi who was a mentor to Willie Narmour, was murdered in the 1930's when he was playing a dance. He had finished his night's work and was wrapping up, when one of the audience demanded he continue playing. Clardy refused and was slain.
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Recorded sources: County 3514, Gene Clardy & Stan Clements - "Mississippi Fiddle Bands, vol. 2." Document 8028, Gene Clardy - "Mississippi String Bands, vol. 2." Musical Traditions MT 104, the Nations Brothers (Mississippi) - "Where the Southern Crosses the Dog: Mississippi Fiddle Music 1928-35."
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