Annotation:Joe Drody's Tune
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JOE DRODY'S TUNE. French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). Canada, Gaspé. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. "Joe Brody's Tune" is from the repertory of fiddler Joe Drody of Douglastown[1], historically a mixed anglo-francophone community at the eastern end of the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec. According to folklorist and researcher Glenn Patterson<ref>Glenn Patterson, blog, "Erskine Morris: Old-Time Fiddle Music from the Gaspé Coast", Saturday, July 28, 2012 [1]. <ref>, Joseph Angus Drody (1885-1965) was born and raised in Douglastown resided there his almost his entire life, the sion of a regionally renowned fiddling family (a brother, Charlie; three sons, Anthony, Joseph Jr., and Johnny; and two daughters, Kathleen and Mary Ellen, also learned to play the instrument). Joe Sr. himself learned to play from his maternal uncle, James Henry Walsh, another Douglastown native born in 1830, often walking the four miles to his uncle's house to learn the old tunes. Brody was good-natured and well-regarded in the community and a mentor for younger musicians in the area such as Erskine Morris, who learned many of the the older tunes (such as "Drops of Brandy (4)", "Fat Molasses", "Queen's Reel", "Cockawee (The)", and "Murphy Reel (The)", among many others) from Joe.
