Annotation:Jerusalem Ridge
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JERUSALEM RIDGE. American, Reel (cut time). USA. A Aeolian (Am). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'CC. Composed by bluegrass mandolinist Bill Monroe (Ky., 1911-1996)). Jerusalem Ridge is an area in the hills around Monroe's birthplace near Rosine, Kentucky. His Uncle Pen, a mentor, used to play his fiddle late into the evening up on Jerusalem Ridge. The tune has similarities to "Glory in the Meeting House," an old fiddle tune collected from several eastern Kentucky sources, which may be a model or precursor. It is possible it influenced Monroe and/or fiddler Kenny Baker who helped Monroe shape the tune. Baker, however, was careful to give credit to Monroe for the composition. According to him, the band was staying in a motel in Kentucky back in the early to mid 1970s, when Monroe invited Baker to come to his room to work on a tune that Monroe was trying to fashion. The mandolinist would play a section and then would ask the fiddler to play it back, and then modify it. This process took some time, but in the end "Jerusalem Ridge" emerged, and became a showpiece for Baker. It was first recorded by Monroe in March, 1975.
