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X:1 T:Green River S:Osey Helton (1879-1942, Cherokee County, N.C.) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel D:Broadway 5123 (78 RPM), Osey Helton (1924) F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/green-river Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G AGE|DEGB AG[GB]G|DEGA BABd|ed/d/ [d2g2] gagd| e2d2B2G2|AGGE DEGB|[M:2/4]AG A/G/E |[M:C|]G2[G_B]-[G=B]- [GB]:|| gbag egde|[M:5/4]ga b6zg-|[M:C|]g3a ba (b/a/g) |egde gedB|AB G2[G,4D4]| gbag egde|[M:5/4]ga b6zg-|[M:C|]g3a ba (b/a/g) |egde gedB|[M:3/4]AB G2|| g2-|[M:C|]gagd e2d2|B2G2 AGEG|DEGB AGEG|BABd ed/d/ [d2g2]| gagd e2d2|B2G2 AGGE|DEGB AG A/G/E|(G2[G2B2])- [GB]||

GREEN RIVER. American, Reel (cut/irregular time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The reel was commercially recorded by fiddler Osey Helton (1879-1942) for Broadway Records in 1924. Osey and his brother Ernest Helton were part Cherokee and lived in Cherokee County, western North Carolina. Osey died in Jackson County during the World War II years, while Ernest went west to work in a shipyard in Portland, Oregon, although he died in Baltimore, Md., in 1979. Eighteen years after Osey recorded his 78 RPM record "Green River" was captured by folklorist Artus Moser on a field recording trip to western North Carolina for the Library of Congress. He recorded a number of tunes in Swannanoa from fiddler Marcus Martin (1881-1974), who was originally from Macon County, N.C.).

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Recorded sources: -Broadway 5123 (78 RPM), Osey Helton (1924. Backed with "Rocky Road to Dublin"). County 2730, Rafe Stefanini - "Glory on the Big String." Library of Congress AFS 07891 A, Marcus Martin (1942). Yazoo 2202, Osey Helton - "The Stuff that Dreams are made of" (2006).

See also listing at:
Hear Marcus Martin's 1942 field recoding by folklorist Artus Moser at Slippery Hill [1]
Hear Osey Helton's 1924 recording at youtube.com [2] [3] and at Soundcloud [4].

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