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PINEY WOODS [1]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. A Major. AEac# tuning (fiddle): capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aEADE, or gGDGB (banjo). West Virginia fiddler Burl and Sherman Hammons both played this very "crooked" cross-tuned (scordatura) modal melody, which may be a family original.

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Recorded sources: Lost Chicken Records, Dave Marshall, Andrea Cooper & Joel Bernstein - "Pleasant Hill" (2009). Marimac 9008, The Lazy Aces String Band - "Still Lazy After All These Years" (1986. Learned from Burl Hammons' recording). Rounder 0010, "The Fuzzy Mountain String Band" (1972). Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones - "Sweet memories...never leave."

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear Burl Hammons' recording at Slippery Hill [2][3]
See Dwight Diller's banjo tab [4]