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 JODIE. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. Milnes' source, Delbert Hughes (1905-1982), was a coal miner in southern West Virginia who worked several locations. He had been born in Jellico, Tennessee, and his family later moved to Kentucky, where he learned to fiddle as a boy. By 1935 Hughes had removed to Kanawha County, West Virginia, where he remained for the rest of his life. Milnes suspects the title of the tune might be the name of one of the small mining camps in the area.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources: Shanachie Records 6040, Gerry Milnes & Lorriane Lee Hammond - "Hell Up Coal Holler" (1999. Learned from the late fiddler Delbert Hughes, of Cabin Creek, West Virginia).

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