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LOVELY JANE [1]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This 'crooked' tune has one part in a major scale, the other in a modal scale. In the repertoire of the late Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003).

Source for notated version: Melvin Wine [Silberberg].

Printed sources: Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 94.

Recorded sources: Marimac cassette AHS 6, Melvin Wine - "Vintage Wine" (1993).

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
A nicely paced banjo version on youtube [2]
A stringband version from the Soda Rock Ramblers on youtube [3]