Annotation:Apple Blossom (2)

ADae tuning. AB (Titon/Bowles): AABB (Phillips, Titon/Monday).

The tune was not widely known outside the northern Tennessee/south-central Kentucky area known as the Cumberland Plateau. Bruce Greene finds the tune was sometimes sung with banjo accompaniment as "Fished in the Pond" or "Never Catched a Nibble." S

ources for notated versions: African-American fiddler John Lusk (Ky.) [Phillips]; Isham Monday (Tomkinsville, Monroe County, Ky., 1959) [Titon]; Jim Bowles (Rock Bridge, Monroe County, Kentucky, 1959) [Titon].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; pg. 17. Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; Nos. 2-A & 2B, pg. 33.

Recorded sources: Carryon Records 007, The Renegades - "I Need to Find." Marimac 9060, Jim Bowles (b. 1903) - "Railroading Through the Rocky Mountains" (Learned from local musicians). Rounder CD 0238, John Lusk Band - "Altamont -Black String Band Music From the Library of Congress." Yodel-Ay-Hee 011, Bruce Molsky.