Annotation:Streak o' Lean Streak o' Fat

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STREAK O' LEAN, STREAK O' FAT. American, Reel (whole or cut time). USA, north Georgia. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. See related tunes “Big Footed N....r (2)," "Hell Broke Loose in Georgia (1)" and "Possum up a Gum Stump (2). Fiddler A.A. Gray and guitarist John Dilleshaw recorded four sides together in Atlanta in March, 1930, including “Tallapoosa Bound”/”Streak O’ Lean-Streak O’ Fat” and “N….r Baby”/”The Old Ark’s a’Moving.”


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - A.A. Gray (north Ga.) [Phillips].

Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 231.

Recorded sources : - Vocalion 5430 (78 RPM), 1930, A.A. Gray (north Georgia) {recorded with '7 Foot Dilly', AKA John Dilleshaw). Brittany Haas - "Brittany Haas" (2009).

See also listing at :
Hear the 1930 recording with A.A. Gray and John Dilleshaw at youtube.com [1]
Hear the tune played by Brittany Haas at youtube.com [2]



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