Annotation:Sleeping Lulu

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SLEEPING LULU. AKA and see "L and N Rag." American, Country Rag (cut time). USA; Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Phillips): AA'BB (Brody): AA'BB' (Songer). There are a few versions of "Sleeping Lulu," similar in key of 'C' rag structure and character, but with distinct melodic differences as well. The tune was recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, at the end of October, 1931, but the core Skillet Lickers line-up: Clayton McMichen and Lowe Stokes (fiddle), Riley Puckett (gtr.), and Gid Tanner (banjo). See also "Lulu Loves them Young." They were predated in releasing a version of the tune by the Cumberland Plateau duo of Dick Burnet (1883-1977) and Leonard Rutherford (c. 1900-1954) who recorded it in 1930. Burnet learned the tune from a man named Elmer Stany (d. 1932).

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Bob Potts and Walt Koken with the Highwoods String Band (Ithica, N.Y.) {Phillips additionally credits Seattle fiddler Ruthie Dornfeld} [Brody, Phillips].

Printed sources : - Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; p. 257. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 131. Susan Songer with Clyde Curley (Portland Collection vol. 3), 2015; p. 198.

Recorded sources : - -Columbia 15567 D (78 RPM), Dick Burnett (Monticello, Ky.), (1930. Burnett learned the tune from one Elmer Stany [d. 1932]). Columbia 15777-D (78 RPM), The Skillet Lickers (1931. Backed with “McMichen’s Breakdown”). Davis Unlimited DU 33014, W.L. Gregory & Clyde Davenport – “Monticello: Tough Mountain Music” (1975). Document DOCD 8025, “Burnett & Rutherford 1926-1930” (1998). Rounder 0074, Highwoods String Band "No. 3 Special" (1976. Learned from Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers). Rounder 1005, Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers "Hear These New Southern Fiddle and Guitar Records."

See also listing at :
Hear the Skillet Licker’s 1931 recording at Slippery Hill [1] and youtube.com [2]
Hear Burnett & Rutherford’s recording at youtube.com [3]
Hear north Tennessee farmer and fiddler Sammie Dyer's 1972 field recording at Berea Sound Archives [4]

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