Annotation:Hopping John

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HOPPING JOHN. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, western North Carolina. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune features slides and staccato which is meant to suggest hopping.

Fiddlin' Bill Hensley, 1937. Photograph by Ben Shahn, 1898-1969.

Source for notated version: Bill Hensley [1] (?-1960, Asheville, western North Carolina) [Milliner & Koken, Phillips].

Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 305. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; p. 114.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Hear Bill Hensley's c. 1940's recording at Slippery Hill [2]

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