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T:Fire on the Mountain [6]
S:Isham Monday
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L:1/8
R:Reel
N:AEae tuning
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
K:A
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FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN [6]. American, Reel (cut time). A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. The tune is unique to fiddler Isham Monday, Cloyd Ridge, Monroe County, south-central Kentucky, and is not related to other "Fire on the Mountain" tunes (which Monday also played, but under the title "Sambo"). Titon (2001) notes some similarities with "Fire on the Mountain (7)."
Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Isham Monday, recording in the field in 1959 (Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Ky.) [Milliner & Koken]; Matt Brown [Fiddler Magazine].
Printed sources : - Larsen (Fiddler Magazine), vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 2010; p. 6. Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 199.
Titon (Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001.
Recorded sources : - Matt Brown w. Paul Brown, Beverly Smith - "Lone Prairie."
See also listing at :
Hear Isham Monday's 1959 field recording by D.K. Wilgus at Slippery Hill [1] and the Digital Library of Appalachia [2]
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