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 GOING TO JAIL. Old-Time, Country Rag. USA, Kentucky. G Major (Brody, Phillips): C Major (New Lost City Ramblers). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB (Brody): AA'BB' (Phillips). A ragtime fiddle piece composed around the E, A, D, G chord turn. The New Lost City Rambler's version is from Tennesse's Fiddlin' Arthur Smith.  Source for notated version: Ken Kosek [Phillips].  Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 122. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 54.  Recorded sources: County 531, Ted Gosset's Band (Muhlenberg County, Ky.) - "Old Time String Band Classics: 1927-1933" (1975. "Ted Gossett played fiddle on most of the band's performances, but is replaced on this classic country ragtime tune by Tommy Whitmer."). Folkways FA 2492, New Lost City Ramblers- "String Band Instrumentals" (1964). Superior 2519 (78 RPM), Buddy Young's Kentuckians (The group name was an alias for Ted Gossett's band, from western Kentucky).  See also listing at: Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources

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