Annotation:Ned Landry's Tune
NED LANDRY'S TUNE. AKA and see "Hornpipe à "Ti-Joe L'aveugle"." American, Canadian; Reel or Hornpipe (whole time). Fiddlers in the Midwest during the 1940s and '50s listened to Canadian radio stations, and some of them picked up fiddle tunes from the broadcasts. Other fiddlers would buy 78s and 45s of Canadian music from city vendors. In the Midwest it was popularized by fiddlers Casey Jones and Cyril Stinnett. This tune might have been composed by Ned Landry of New Brunswick, but it was also in the repertory of fiddler Joseph-Marie Albert, known as "Ti-Joe L'aveugle" (Blind Little-Joe), of Caraquet Parish, who along with Celestin Landry of the same parish, played for local weddings and other events. Peter Corfield [1] writes: "It is said that wedding celebrations could last one week and that 'Ti-Joe' would come back covered in dust, having played for quadrilles whilst sitting on a oak barrel cut in half."
- ↑ Peter Corfield, Tunes from New Brunswick, 2024, p. 58.