Annotation:Walls of Jericho (1)

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WALLS OF JERICHO [1]. Old Time, Breakdown. USA; southwestern Va., western North Carolina. A Major. AEac# tuning (fiddle). According to Tom Carter and Blanton Owen (1976) the sections of the tune were considered by source Munsey Gaulney to represent scenes from Joshua's struggle at the walls of Jericho. A tune by this name was recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph from the playing of Ozarks Mountains fiddlers in the early 1940's. Arkansas fiddler Violet Hensley’s family played a tune called “Jericho” in the same cross-tuning, and Mark Wilson suggests both are versions of a common ancestor.

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Recorded sources: Rounder 0057, Sam MacNeil (Pilot, Montgomery County, Va.) "Old Originals, vol. 1" (1978. Learned from influential Franklin County, Va. fiddler Fountain Kingrea). Rounder 0058, Munsey Gaultney (Va., originally from Ashe County, N.C.) "Old Originals, vol. 2" (1978).

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