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X:1 T:Magpie S:Harlan Coble (Guilford County, north-central N.C.) M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel R:Quick D:Library of Congress AFS 13,032. N:Recorded in the field by Alan Jabbour, 1966. F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/magpie Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G d2g2|d2B2|c>B c/d/e| d3d| g>aba| g2B2|c/B/c/A/ FD| G3B/c/:| |:dg/e/ d/c/B/A/|GB Gc/B/|AF A/c/B/A/|GB/A/ G B/c/| dg/e/ d/c/B/A/|GB Gc/B/|AF A/c/B/A/|G>F GB/c/:||

MAGPIE. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, North Carolina (Piedmont region). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (Brody, Kaufman). Collected by Eric Olson, Bobbie and Tommy Thompson in 1968, and even earlier by Alan Jabbour (1966, see Library of Congress AFS 13,036), from fiddle/banjo duo Harlan Coble and William Alonzo "Lonnie" Corsbie (Guilford County, N.C.). Tom Carter also collected a D Major version from Piedmont fiddler Earl Shatterly. The 'A' part of the tune is quite similar to that of "Evans Hornpipe." The tune was very popular among young old-time musicians in the "revival" of the 1970's.

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 181. Kaufman (Beginning Old Time Fiddle), 1977; p. 51. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 96. Songer (Portland Collection, vol. 2), 2005; p. 123.

Recorded sources: -Ken Perlman & Alan Jabbour - "Southern Summits." June Appal 028, Wry Straw - "From Earth to Heaven" (1978). Rounder 0010, "Fuzzy Mountain String Band" (1972). The Cedar Point String Band (Frank George, David O'Dell, Bob Roark).

See also listing at:
Hear Harlan Coble's 1966 field recording at Slippery Hill [1]
Hear Magpie at the Oldtown School of Music (Chicago) [2]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [3]

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