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X:1 T:Tucker's Old Barn [2] N:From Mitch Wallin (1854-1932) via his grand-nephew, Byard Ray N:(1910-1988), Sodom Laurel, western N.C. M:C| L:1/8 Q:"Fast" R:Reel D:https://dla.acaweb.org/digital/collection/Warren/id/399/ Z:Andrew Kuntz K:G ga |g2 f2 eedB|c2c2 E2E2|DEFG ABAG|F2[F2d2]D4| d3e d2Bc|d2c2E2E2|ABAG FDFG|ABAF D3|| B-|d2B2c2d2|f2d2 J[e4e4]-|[M:2/4][e2e2] ef|[M:C|]gfed BAG2| [G6B6] (Bc| d2)B2B2d2|f2d2 J[e4e4]-|[M:2/4][e2e2] ef|[M:C|]gfed BAG2| [G6B6]|| P:'A' part 2nd time g2-|g2 ff edBc|d2c2 E2E2|DEFG AF[FA][FA]|ABAF D4| FEFG [DA]FAB|d2c2E2E2|ABAG FDFG|ABAF D3||

Mitchell Wallin (1854-1932), Sodom Laurel, N.C.

TUCKER'S OLD BARN [2]. American, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB'. "Tucker's Old Barn [2]" is sourced to Sodom Laurel, Madison County, western North Carolina, musician Byard Ray (1910-1988), who learned it from his great uncle, Mitchell "Mitch" Wallin (1854-1932), who had been visited by English folksong and folk dance collector Cecil Sharp during his Appalachian tour in 1916^[1].

It is either not related to "Tucker's Old Barn (1)," or so distantly related as to be easily considered a separate tune. Ray speculated that the tune/title origin might have been connected with fiddler's gatherings in tobacco barns used for flue-curing.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Armin Barnett (Seattle) [Phillips].

Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 244.

Recorded sources : - SGS (4) – 104101, Byard Ray - "Traditional Music of Southern Appalachia" (1981).

See also listing at :
Hear the tune played by Jason Cade on youtube.com [1]
Hear Byard Ray play the tune during a 1976 interview at the Digital Library of Appalachia [2]

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↑ Mike Yates wrote in his Musical Traditions article #047 [3], "Sharp spent about four weeks in Madison County, often being driven in Mitchel Wallin's car. Today Mr Wallin is remembered as a good local fiddle player. Sharp, however, found him, 'a bad singer and a very difficult fiddler to note from.' After noting the tune "High March", Sharp wrote that:

Wallin began by playing several times occasionally making the 4th crotchet E or D below, then broke into the tune when the fancy took him. He rested the fiddle on his knee, while he sat down. He played well but was perpetually improvising in detail. He said 'All my tunes are changeable'. His mother was a Franklin. He must have Irish blood in him.

[1] Mike Yates wrote in his Musical Traditions article #047 [3], "Sharp spent about four weeks in Madison County, often being driven in Mitchel Wallin's car. Today Mr Wallin is remembered as a good local fiddle player. Sharp, however, found him, 'a bad singer and a very difficult fiddler to note from.' After noting the tune "High March", Sharp wrote that:

Wallin began by playing several times occasionally making the 4th crotchet E or D below, then broke into the tune when the fancy took him. He rested the fiddle on his knee, while he sat down. He played well but was perpetually improvising in detail. He said 'All my tunes are changeable'. His mother was a Franklin. He must have Irish blood in him.

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