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WASHINGTON COUNTY. AKA and see “Washington and Lee Swing (2)." Bluegrass, March (cut time). USA. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Phillips): AB (Brody). A bluegrass double-stop show-piece “composed” by bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker, although it apparently is based on “Washington and Lee Swing.” Baker was Bill Monroe’s fiddler with the Bluegrass Boys for twenty years.

Source for notated version: Kenny Baker [Brody, Phillips].

Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; p. 285. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes vol. 2), 1995; p. 163 (appears as “Washington and Lee Swing” [B]).

Recorded sources: County 719, Kenny Baker “Portrait of a Bluegrass Fiddler.” County 2705, Kenny Baker – “Master Fiddler.” Rounder 0086, Butch Robbins “Forty Years Late.”