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DIGGING POTATOES. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. The tonality wavers between A and D. AEae tuning (fiddle). A curious tune in the repertoire of West Virginia fiddler Edden Hammons. Alan Jabbour suggests it may originally have been an Irish jig or slip jig.

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Recorded sources: West Virginia University Press SA-1, Edden Hammons - "Edden Hammons Collection I" (1984).




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