Annotation:Jimmy MacKinnon of Smelt Brook

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 JIMMY MACKINNON OF SMELT BROOK. AKA - "Jimmy McKinnon of Smelt Brook." AKA and see "Scotch Cove Jig." Canadian, Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by Cape Breton fiddler Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987).  Source for notated version: Joseph Doucette (b. 1910, Deblois Road, West Prince County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].  Printed sources: Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 203, p. 79. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 123. Welling (Welling's Hartford Tune Book), 1976; p. 25 (appears as 1st tune of "Scotch Cove Medley").  Recorded sources: Breton Books and Records BOC 1HO, Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald - "Classic Cuts" (reissue of Celtic Records CX44).  See also listing at: Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index

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