Annotation:Evening Shade

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EVENING SHADE. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Tennessee. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A slower tempo than the usual breakdown speed. On a home recording by Arthur Smith's son Ernest the tune is entitled "Evening Shade Falling," although on Smith's LP it is listed simply as "Evening Shade."

Source for notated version: Fiddlin' Arthur Smith (Tenn.) [Milliner/Koken, Phillips].

Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 189. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 48.

Recorded sources: Folkways FTS-31007, The McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith - "Milk 'Em in the Evenin' Blues" (1968)

See also listing at: Jane Keefer's Folk Music: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]

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