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SLEEPING LULU [1]. AKA and see "L and N Rag." American, Country Rag (cut time). USA; Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Phillips): AA'BB (Brody). The time was recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, at the end of October, 1931, but the core Skillet Lickers line-up: Clayton McMichen and Lowe Stokes (fiddle), Riley Puckett (gtr.), and Gid Tanner (banjo). See also "Lulu Loves them Young." They were predated in releasing a version of the tune by the Cumberland Plateau duo of Dick Burnet (1883-1977) and Leonard Rutherford (c. 1900-1954) who recorded it in 1930. Burnet learned the tune from a man named Elmer Stany (d. 1932).

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Bob Potts and Walt Koken with the Highwoods String Band (Ithica, N.Y.) {Phillips additionally credits Seattle fiddler Ruthie Dornfeld} [Brody, Phillips].

Printed sources : - Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; p. 257. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 131.

Recorded sources : - -Columbia 15567 D (78 RPM), Dick Burnett (Monticello, Ky.), (1930. Burnett learned the tune from one Elmer Stany [d. 1932]). Columbia 15777-D (78 RPM), The Skillet Lickers (1931. Backed with “McMichen’s Breakdown”). Davis Unlimited DU 33014, W.L. Gregory & Clyde Davenport – “Monticello: Tough Mountain Music” (1975). Document DOCD 8025, “Burnett & Rutherford 1926-1930” (1998). Rounder 0074, Highwoods String Band "No. 3 Special" (1976. Learned from Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers). Rounder 1005, Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers "Hear These New Southern Fiddle and Guitar Records."

See also listing at :
Hear the Skillet Licker’s 1931 recording at Slippery Hill [1] and youtube.com [2]
Hear Burnett & Rutherford’s recording at youtube.com [3]
Hear north Tennessee farmer and fiddler Sammie Dyer's 1972 field recording at Berea Sound Archives [4]

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