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KENNEDY RAG. Old-Time, Country Rag. USA, Alabama. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. Composed by fiddler Charlie Stripling, and named for Kennedy, his Pickens County, Alabama, hometown.

Source for notated version: Charlie Stripling (Alabama) [Phillips]; Lee Stripling (Seattle), learned from his father Charlie [Silberberg].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 71. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 82.

Recorded sources: County 401, "The Stripling Brothers." Vocalion 5382 (78 RPM), Stripling Brothers (Alabama) {1929}.

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