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EADLE ALLEY. American, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The source for "Eadle Alley" is Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003), who said it 'was an old tune some cousins of mine used to play'. His cousins were the Allen family, who he said were 4th generation descendants of an Irishman. He did not know the meaning of the title or what it referred to.
Additional notes
Recorded sources : - HJM003MRR, Haints Old Time String Band - "Shout Monah" (2009).
See also listing at :
See/hear Melvin Wine play the tune (accompanied by Gerry Milnes) at a Berea College performance video at Berea Digital Content [1]
Hear Melvin Wine play the tune at the Digital Library of Appalachia [2]
See/hear Erynn Marshall play the tune along with a tutorial at youtube.com [3]
See another standard notation transcription at TaterJoes [4]
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