Annotation:Eadle Alley
X:1 T:Eadle Alley N:From the playing of fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003, Braxton County, N:central West Virginia) on a Berea College performance video. N:Wine introduced it as 'an old tune some cousins of mine used to play.' N:Wine plays with an accented backbeat. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Fast" D:https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/7674 Z:Andrew Kuntz K:G ef|gfga gedA|BGAG EFGA|g2 ga gded|BA-AA A2e(f| g)fga gedA|BGAG EFGE|DGGA- BGAG|1[G,E][G,3G3] J[G,2G2]:|2[G,E][G,G][G,G][G,G] J[G,2G2]|| [G,2D2]-|:[G,2D2].[G,2G2] JBGAG|EG-GE D-EGE|D2 GA BGAG|[FA][FA][FA][FB] [FA][GA][FA][EA]| [G,2D2].[G,2G2] JBGAG|EFGG E-FGE|DGGA- BGAG|1[G,E]-[G,G][G2B2] [G3B3]G:|2[G,E][G,G][G,G][G,G] J[G,2G2]||
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.
