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OLD JOE SHELBY. Old-Time. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. The title perhaps refers to Confederate General Joseph Orville Shelby (1831-1897).

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