Annotation:Mississippi Breakdown (1)

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MISSISSIPPI BREAKDOWN [1]. Old Time, Breakdown. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB'C. Sourced to the playing of Mississippi fiddle and guitar duo William Thomas Narmour and Shellie Walton Smith.

Source for notated version: Willie Narmour [Milliner & Koken].

Printed sources: Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes, 2011; p. 422.

Recorded sources: County 528, Narmour & Smith "Mississippi Breakdown: Traditional Fiddle Music of Mississippi, vol. 1." County 532, "The Leake County Revelers: 1927 1930 Recordings" (1975). Document 8028, The Mississippi Possum Hunters – “Mississippi String Bands, vol. 2” (reissue). OKeh 45492 (78 RPM), Narmour and Smith (1930). Victor 23595 (78 RPM), Mississippi Possum Hunters (1930).

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