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LOST PARTRIDGE. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. John Masters learned this tune from African-American Jessamine County musician Jim Booker (b. 1872), an influential fiddler who backed others and had his own group, the Booker Brothers, who recorded in the 1920's. Titon (2001) says that Masters was the only fiddler who had been recorded playing the tune, to his knowledge.

Source for notated version: Jim Booker via John Masters (Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., c. 1974) [Titon].

Printed sources: Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 97, p. 126.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Hear John Master's field recording, c. 1980's by John Harrod at Berea Digital Content [1] and the Digital Library of Appalachia [2]

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