Annotation:Old Blue Sow

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OLD BLUE SOW. American, Reel (cut time). USA; Arkansas, Mississippi. A Major & D Major. Standard or ADae (Bruce Molsky) tunings (fiddle). Most modern versions are modeled after a 1939 recording by Magee, Simpson County, central Mississippi, fiddler Enos Canoy (1909-1970), who had learned the tune from an uncle, Robert Runnels, from Simpson County, Mississippi. Tom Rankin (1985) says of the tune: "This piece is less an identifiable melody than a patchwork of harmonic textures woven with a series of rhythmic bowing patterns." The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.

Additional notes

Recorded sources : - Cartunes 105, Bruce Molsky and Bob Carlin - "Take Me as I Am" (2004. Sourced to Enos Canoy). Marimac Records 9023, Bob Carlin and Bruce Molsky--"Take Me As I Am." Mississippi Department of Archives and History AH-002, Enos Canoy and the Canoy Band - "Great Big Yam Potatoes: Anglo-American Fiddle Music from Mississippi" (1985. Originally recorded for the Library of Congress in 1939). The Crooked Jades - "The Unfortunate Rake, Volume 1" (2000).

See also listing at :
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear/see the tune played by Molly and Dan Tenenbaum on youtube.com [2]

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