Annotation:Old Voile

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OLD VIOLE. AKA and see "Constitution Hornpipe (3)," "Farewell Mary Ann." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. The tune comes from Grant County, Kentucky, and was recorded by fiddler Frank Miller with the north-central Kentucky group the Blue Ridge Mountaineers in 1929 for Gennett Records. It was named after a man whose name was Viole Franks, a mail carrier in Grant County who played the tune but had no name for it. The tune was colleted in Anderson County, Kentucky, under the title "Constitution Hornpipe," and a close variant appeared in Mississippi as "Farewell Mary Ann."

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Recorded sources: Gennett 6870 (78 RPM), Blue Ridge Mountaineers (1929). Morning Star 45005, Blue Ridge Mountaineers - "Way Down South in Dixie."

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