Annotation:Lynchburg

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X:1 T:Lynchburg S:Uncle Jimmy Thompson (1848-1931, Texas and Smith County, Tennessee) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel N:"Hello folks, this is Uncle Jimmy Thompson. I'm gonna play you a N:fine quadrille I learned in eighteen and sixty-six." "That's a long time. How old are you, Uncle Jimmy?" "Eighty-two." D:Vocalion 5456 (78 RPM), Uncle Jimmy & Eva Thompson (1930) D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/lynchburg Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A ((3efg|a2)cc cBAc|BAGB A2Ac|BE E/E/E EcBA|GABG E2((3efg| a)ecd c2Ac|BAGB A2 AA|Acea fdBG|A2AB A2:| A,2-|A,2 (CE) (E[E3A3]) |+slide+[e4e4][e4e4]|agfe dcBA|[B4e4][B4e4]| [EB][Ec][Ed]A Bcde|f4[B4g4]|eagf edcB|A2 cB [E2A2]B,G,| A,2 (A,/B,/A,/G,/) A,2 (C-E|[E2A2])[E4A4][E2A2]|eagf edcA|B2 (3cBA B2[E2B2]-| [E2B2][B4g4][Bg][Ae]|[B3g3] e =g-^ggf|eagf edcB|A2 AA A2|| ((3efg|a2)ed cBAc|BAGB Ac|BEEE BcBA|GABG E2((3efg| a)ec[de] [c2e2]Ac|BAGB A2AA|Acea gdBG|A2 A4|| ((3efg|a2) (3bag a2 (3bag|a2 (3bag a2ag-|g2g2 fedc|[B2e2] [B4e4]((3fga| b2)b4 b2-|b2b4ba|g2 ag f2 gf|[M:3/2]edcB A2A4((3efg| [M:C|]a2) (3bag a2 (3bag|a2 (3bag a2ag-|g2g2 fedc|[B2e2] [B4e4](ef| g2) g4eg|fgaf edcB|A2AAA4||

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LYNCHBURG. American, Reel or Quadrille (cut time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The tune, classified as either a quadrille or reel, was recorded by biography:Uncle Jimmy Thompson (1848-1931) of Texas and Smith County, Tennessee, in 1930 for Brunswick/Vocalion Records in Knoxville. He was backed on the recording by his niece, Eva Thompson, on piano, and they recorded in a temporary studio set up in a hotel. Thompson introduces the tune on the recording:

"Hello folks, this is Uncle Jimmy Thompson. I'm gonna play you a fine quadrille I learned the fourth day of August in eighteen and sixty-six."

(Bill Brown, producer:) "That's a long time. How old are you, Uncle Jimmy?"

"Eighty-two."

Charles Wolfe identifies Thompson's "Lynchburg" as "an old minstrel show number also known as 'Lynchburg Town'".