Annotation:One More River to Cross

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ONE MORE RIVER TO CROSS. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was in the repertory of West Virginia fiddler and bagpiper Franklin George, West Virginia fiddler Wilson Douglas, and Indiana fiddler John Summers. Mark Wilson (1981) says the tune bears a distant resemblance to a Negro spiritual of the same name. However, (as Joel Shimberg points out) the tune is a version of "Run Nigger Run" that was renamed by Frank George, who liked to play the tune in performance but who declined to credit the original title.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 208.

Recorded sources: Field Recorders Collective FRC407, Franklin George - "One More River to Cross" (2007). Rounder 0035, Fuzzy Mountain String Band- "Summer Oaks and Porch" (1973. Learned from Frank George, W.Va.). Rounder SS-0145, Wilson Douglas (Ivydale, W.Va.) - "Traditional Music on Rounder: A Sampler" (1981). Rounder Select, Wilson Douglas - "Art of Old-Time Mountain Music" (2003. Various artists).

See also listing at:
Hear Wilson Douglas's recording at Slippery-Hill [1]
Hear John Summer's version at Slippery-Hill [2]