DEACON JONES. American, Reel (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCDB. A ragtime-based reel, rapidly played by fiddler Daniel Huggins Williams with the East Texas Serenaders, who also included Cloet Hamman on guitar, Henry Bogan on cello and banjo player John Munnerlyn. The tune was recorded at a session in Dallas, Texas, in October, 1928, and released by Brunswick the next year. The group all had day jobs near Mineola, Tyler and Lindale, Texas; fiddler Williams was variously a printer, a florist, and an undertaker. The tune contains melodic material from "Alabama Jubilee."
The East Texas Serenaders
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Recorded sources : - Brunswick 298 (78 RPM), East Texas Serenaders (1929). County 412, "East Texas Serenaders" (1977). County CD 3525, "Old Time Texas String Bands, vol. 2."
See also listing at : Hear the East Texas Serenaders' 1928 recording at Slippery Hill [1] and at youtube.com [2]
