Annotation:Rainy Day (2) (The)
X:1 T:Rainy Day [2] N:From the playing of fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003, Copen, Braxton County, N:central West Virginia) on a Berea College performance video. N:Wine plays with a pronounced backbeat. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Quick" D:Augusta Heritage DVD AHDVD 04, Melvin Wine - "One More Time" (2003) D:https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/7361 Z:Andrew Kuntz K:Amix [Ae]aaa a2 aa|agef- g2 ((3DEF|[G,2G2])[DB][DB] d2[Dd]d|[DB]ded [DB][Dd]-[D2d2]| e-aaa a2aa|agef- g2 ((3DEF|[G,G])ABB dg-ed|1BA-A[Ae] [A4e4]:|2BA[Ae]A A2|| |:[de]-[ee]-|[e2e2][ee][ee] [ee][ef][ee]d|BGAG [G,2G2] ((3DEF|[G,2G2])[DB][DB] d2[Dd]d|[DB]ded [DB][Dd]-[Dd][de]-| [e3e3][de]- [ee]fed|BGA[G,F]- [G,2G2] ((3DEF|[G,G])A[DB]c de[Dd]d|[DB][AA]-[AA][AA] [A2A2]:|
RAINY DAY [2], THE. American, Reel. USA, West Virginia. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A modal tune from the family repertoire of Braxton County, W.Va., fiddler Melvin Wine. Variants include the Hammons family’s “Hell against the Barn Door,” Braxton County fiddler Ernie Carpenter’s “Dan Friend's Piece<div class="mw-ext-score noresize" data-midi="/w/images/lilypond/a/y/ayanfznbpl64ym4zydhv1t34lc2rb20/ayanfznb.midi"><img src="/w/images/lilypond/a/y/ayanfznbpl64ym4zydhv1t34lc2rb20/ayanfznb.png" width="573" height="75" alt=" X:1 T:Dan Friend's Piece M:C| L:1/8 K:Amix A2a2 abag|edee g3B|G2B2d2d2|BGBB d2d2| "></div> ” and a unnamed variant in the repertoire of Pendleton County fiddler Rob Probst [Milnes, 1999]. Compare also with “Squirrel Hunters (The)<div class="mw-ext-score noresize" data-midi="/w/images/lilypond/k/t/kt8bp3v9yaf1nqx5w5nj48zix9yuwzf/kt8bp3v9.midi"><img src="/w/images/lilypond/k/t/kt8bp3v9yaf1nqx5w5nj48zix9yuwzf/kt8bp3v9.png" width="612" height="80" alt=" X:1 T:Squirrel Hunters, The M:4/4 L:1/8 K:D |:"4"e3d .B2 Bd|efed .B2 BA|GABc d2 dc|dBcA BcBA| "></div>
” (parts reversed), recorded by John Hartford (Rounder Records, “Wild Hog in the Red Brush”), who learned it from transcriptions of southwestern Pennsylvania fiddlers in Samuel Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife (1981).
