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KATE'S GOT A WOODEN LEG. Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is Jim Bowles' version of "Shortnin' Bread," with a 'blue' note. Fiddler Bowles [1] was born in 1903 in Monroe County, south-central Kentucky.

Jim Bowles (1903-1993)



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Recorded sources: Marimac 9060, Jim Bowles - "Railroading Through the Rocky Mountains" (1992).




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