Annotation:Dandy Jim (2)

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 DANDY JIM [2]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Not the minstrel tune "Dandy Jim from Caroline," says Jeff Titon (2001), but that it "bears the marks" of African-American origin. It is a tune found only in the Cumberland Plateau region of the mid-Kentucky/Tennessee border area.  Source for notated version: Clyde Davenport (Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, 1990) [Titon].  Printed sources: Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 31, p. 65.  Recorded sources: Marimac 9025, Troxell Brothers - "Troxsong " (1990).

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