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Sheet Music for "Crazy Jack"Crazy JackD.S.Joe Cormier's version, via Devon Leger3D.S.Source: Joseph Larade (Chéticamp, Cape Breton)
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CRAZY JACK. AKA and see "Lord Alexander's Reel." Canadian, Reel (cut time). Canada, Cape Breton (Acadian). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.  "Crazy Jack" was an untitled tune in the repertoires of several Acadian fiddlers from Cape Breton Island, including Joseph Larade, Joe Cormier (Chéticamp, north Cape Breton), and Joe Confiant. However, the melody is a version of the 20th century 'Down East' tune called "Lord Alexander's Reel," composed as a 'straight' (regular eight-bar measures) dance tune by Abbie Andrews of St. Catharine's, Ontario.


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Recorded sources : - Field Recorders Collective FRC Joe Cormier - "Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 2: A Musical Melting Pot" (2023, various artists).

See also listing at :
See/hear the tune played by Devon Leger at youtube.com [1]
Hear Joe Cormier's version at Bandcamp [2] (2nd tune in medley, following "Cottonwood Reel").

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