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Sheet Music for "Crystal Springs"Crystal SpringsBook: Davis - Devil's Box vol. 21, No. 4 (Winter, 1987, p. 16)Notes: Transcribed by Frank Maloy, who learned it from hearing it playedon the radio in the 1940's.



CRYSTAL SPRINGS. American, Reel (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Crystal Springs, in Fort Worth, Texas, was one of the seminal arenas for the development of Western Swing in the 1930's, with the Light Crust Doughboys, and a teenage fiddler named Jesse Ashlock.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Frank Maloy (Englehard, N.C.), learned from an anonymous radio fiddler in the 1940's [Devil's Box].

Printed sources : - Devil's Box, vol. 21, No. 4, Winter 1987; p. 16.

Recorded sources: -



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