GARFIELD'S MARCH. AKA - "Garfield's Funeral March." Old-Time. The piece was derived from a piece of sheet music called "Garfield's Funeral March," dating from the 1881 assassination of President James A. Garfield [1] (Wolfe, 1997), however, there were a number of pieces with the same name (by Edwin Christie, E. Gilmore and others), mostly minor-key dirges. The tune was recorded in Ashland, Kentucky, by Kanawha County, West Virginia, fiddler Clark Kessinger (1896-1975) and his nephew Luches ("The Kessinger Brothers" as the record label denoted them) for Brunswick Records in February, 1928, learned from local W.Va. fiddler Abe Glenn in 1903 when Kessinger was aged seven [1]. The assassination of James Garfield
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Recorded sources: -Brunswick 238 (78 RPM), The Kessinger Brothers (1928). County 536, "The Kessinger Brothers: 1928-1930" (1974). Rounder CD 0377, John Masters - "Traditional Fiddle Music of Kentucky: Along the Kentucky River."
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Hear the Kessinger Brother's recording at Juneberry 78's [2], Slippery Hill [3] and youtube.com [4]
