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CANDY GAL. Old-time, Bluegrass; Breakdown. Learned by Kentucky mandolinist Bill Monroe ('The Father of Bluegrass') from his Uncle Pendaver Vandiver as a young man in the 1920's in Ohio County, western Kentucky. Similar to "Candy Girl (1)."

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Recorded sources: MCA 500, Bill Monroe - "Uncle Pen" (1972).




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