Annotation:Girl with the Blue Dress On (3) (The)

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 GIRL WITH THE BLUE DRESS ON [3], THE. Old-Time. USA, West Virginia. A Mixolydian. AEae tuning (fiddle). One part. A West Virginia tune, according to Doc White of Ivydale, W.Va., often played by influential blind eastern Kentucky fiddler Blind Ed Haley. Influential eastern Ky./W.Va. fiddler Ed Haley played this tune and Charlie Acuff played a cousin to this tune, also in the key of G Major (Hartford). See the related "Give the Fiddler a Dram (2)."  Source for notated version: James Franklin "Doc" White (Ivydale, W.Va.) [Milliner & Koken].  Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 239.  Recorded sources: Rounder 0392, John Hartford - "Wild Hog in the Red Brush (and a Bunch of Others You Might Not Have Heard)" {1996}.

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