Annotation:Cross Eyed Fiddler

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X:1 T:Cross Eyed Fiddler C:Kenny Baker N:From the playing of fiddler Glen Smith (1923-2001, Wirt County, W.Va.), N:recorded in the field in 1973 by Chris Delaney & Armin Barnett. Smith N:was born in western Virginia in the Galax/Hillsville area and was a protege N:of area fiddlers such as Uncle Charley Higgins and Wade Ward. He N:relocated to West Virginia in 1964. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/cross-eyed-fiddler Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:E |:B,4- B,CE2|[E4G4]- [EG]E(F<E)|[A,4D4]-[A,D][A,D][A,2D2]|-E(F[F2c2]-) [F4c4]| [E4B4][FB]-[GB]-[GB]B|BcBG F-GBB|[e2e2][e2e2][e2e2]ef|ecBG F-GE2:| |:E-GBd e2ee|g-aba gfee|Bcd2 [d3f3]e|fgag f[d2f2]c| BdJ[e2e2][e2e2]ee|gaba gfec|[e2e2][e2e2][e2e2] ef|ecBG [FB]-[GB][E2B2]:|



CROSS EYED FIDDLER. American, Reel (cut time). USA. E Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Cross Eyed Fiddler" was composed by bluegrass fiddler wikipedia:Kenny_Baker_(fiddler) (1926-2011), a long-time member of Bill Monore's band The Bluegrass Boys.


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Printed sources : - Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 80.

Recorded sources : - County 730, Kenny Baker- "Baker's Dozen" (1971). County 2705, Kenny Baker - "Master Fiddler" (1993). Mag, Hubert and Ted Powers- "Two Generations of Old Time Fiddle." Philo 1023, Jay Ungar and Lyn Hardy- "Songs, Ballads, and Fiddle Tunes" (1975).

See also listing at :
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear Glen Smith's 1973 field recording at Slippery Hill [2]



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