X:1
T:Southern Blues
N:From the playing of the Scottdale String Band
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L:1/8
D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_szQdIvNbY
D:OKeh 45074-B (78 RPM), Scottdale String Band (1926)
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
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SOUTHERN BLUES. American, Country Rag (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The tune was recorded in Atlanta by the biography:Scottdale String Band, named in honor of the mill village of Scottdale, near Atlanta, and home to the band members[1]. Their first recording was made for the OKeh studios on October 28, 1926, and between that date and 1932 the group recorded nearly thirty sides (all but two—released by Paramount—for OKeh Records). Bill Rattray wrote about the group in Old Time Music Magazine (“Scottdale Boys,” OTM, Summer, 1971) and said the group’s records sold “well, or at least fairly well,” and that “their instrumentation was profoundly different from that of the other, more well-known Georgia bands like the Skillet-Lickers, and gave their music a more sophisticated sound that that of the ‘rough North Georgia’ school.” The groups repertoire varied more than usual for string bands from the region, and included “a wider range of material including tunes used chiefly by the jazz bands…the more traditional breakdowns, songs and ballads are hardly featured at all.” [quoted by Daniel]. "Southern Blues"--really a country rag--was recorded in Atlanta, Ga., in October, 1926, but released in 1927. The Scottdale group on the cut consisted of Barney Pritchard and Marvin Head on guitars, with banjo-mandolinist Belvie Freeman.
Additional notes
Recorded sources : - OKeh 45074 (78 RPM), Scottdale String Band (1927).
See also listing at : Hear the Scottdale String Band's 1927 recording at youtube.com [1]
