Annotation:Mulberry Gap

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MULBERRY GAP. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; eastern Ky., Gilmer County Georgia. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. In the repertoire of Sam Avery and Sam Green, eastern Ky. Chesley Chancey's version is a banjo setting of a tune "handed down as a fiddle piece in his family". Another "Muberry Gap," a different tune, is a variant of "Cumberland Gap."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Rosenbaum (Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia), 1989; p. 171.

Recorded sources: Folkways Records FE 34162, Chesley Chancey - "Folk Visions and Voices, vol. 2: Traditional Music and Song in Northern Georgia" (1984. Various artists).

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]

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