Annotation:Pigeon on the Gate (4)

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PIGEON ON THE GATE [4]. AKA - "Pigeon on the Gatepost (3)." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. D Major. ADae tuning (fiddle). Identified by Doc White (1889-1974) of Ivydale, Clay County, West Virginia, as a West Virginia tune featured by blind northeastern Kentucky fiddler Ed Hayley. White said of Hayley, "He was the best fiddler I ever heard draw a bow." White himself was a jack-of-all trades and sometime dentist, physician and midwife, all self-schooled (hence his nickname). The tune is quite crooked, or irregular in metre. White can be heard playing it on AFS 13,704 (June, 1967).

Doc White

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Hear Doc White's field recording at Slippery Hill [1][2]

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