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BETTY LIKENS. AKA- "Betsy Likens," "Betty Liken." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, W.Va. A Mixolydian/Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Most modern fiddlers source their version to Glen Lyn, Virginia, fiddler Henry Reed.

Source for notated version: Henry Reed (b. 1885, Monroe County, West Virginia) [Krassen]; Alan Jabbour with the Hollow Rock String Band [Phillips, Silberberg].

Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 39. Kaufman (Beginning Old Time Fiddle), 1977; p. 95. Krassen (Masters of Old Time Fiddling), 1983; p. 93. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; p. 23. Silberberg (Fiddle Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 7.

Recorded sources: Kanawha 311, "Hollow Rock String Band." Rounder Records 0074, The Highwoods String Band- "No. 3 Special" (learned from Bert Levy & Durham/Chapel Hill N.C. musicians).