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GREEN VALLEY WALTZ. American, Waltz. USA; east Tennessee, Oklahoma. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Phillips): AABB (Thede). Most sources trace back to Tennesse's Fiddlin' Arthur Smith. "Green Meadow Waltz" is a related melody. Mike Seegar is quoted as saying: "I know of no other fiddler who uses Arthur Smith's device of singing in harmony with the fiddle on the last lines as he does in 'Green Valley Waltz'" [Florence Times, July 28, 1968]. The waltz was recorded by east Tennessee fiddler Jimmy McCarroll with the Roane County Ramblers for Columbia Records in October 1928, but the side was unissued.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - John Lewis (Heavener, Oklahoma) [Thede]; Skip Gorman [Phillips].

Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 265. Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; p. 146.

Recorded sources : - Folkways FA 2379, "McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith" (1964. Originally recorded 1957). Marimac 9008, The Lazy Aces - "Still Lazy After All These Years" (1986. Learned from an Arthur Smith recording).

See also listing at :
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]

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