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DANDY JIM [2]. American, Reel. USA, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Not the minstrel tune "Dandy Jim from Caroline," says Jeff Titon (2001), but that it "bears the marks" of African-American origin. It is a tune found only in the Cumberland Plateau region of the mid-Kentucky/Tennessee border area.
Additional notes
Source for notated version: - Clyde Davenport (Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, 1990) [Titon].
Printed sources : - Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 31, p. 65.
Recorded sources: -Field Recorders Collective FRC104 - "Clyde Davenport vol. 2." Marimac 9025, Troxell Brothers - "Troxsong " (1990).
See also listing at:
Hear Clyde Davenport playing "Dandy Jim" (1990) at Berea Sound Archives [1] and at the Digital Library of Appalachia [2] [3]
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