Annotation:Kennedy Rag

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 KENNEDY RAG. Old-Time, Country Rag. USA, Alabama. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. Composed by fiddler Charlie Stripling, and named for Kennedy, his Pickens County, Alabama, hometown (population 277 at that time of the release of the recording in 1929).  Source for notated version: Charlie Stripling (Alabama) [Phillips]; Lee Stripling (1921-2009,Seattle), learned from his father Charlie [Silberberg].  Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 71. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 82.  Recorded sources: County 401, The Stripling Brothers -"Lost Child" (1971). Vocalion 5382 (78 RPM), Stripling Brothers (Alabama) {1929}.

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