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X:1 T:Sunny Home in Dixie N:From the playing of fiddler Frank Jenkins with Frank Jenkins' Pilot N:Mountaineers (Frank Jenkins, Oscar Jenkins b., Ernest Stoneman gtr.) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Very Quick" D:Gennett 7034 (78 RPM), Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers (1929) D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOYQZyfZED4 D:Document COCD 8023, DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/sunny-home-dixie Z:Andrew Kuntz K:G G-E D2G2|:[G4B4]-[GB]AB-c|de (3dcB AcBA|G2((3EFE D)CB,A,|.G,2z2z2 G2| [GA]-[GB]-[G2B2]- [GB]ABc|d2d2ed3|[F6A6][FA][FB]|[F2A2](3[EA][FA][EA] [DA]F- G2| {A}[G4B4]-[GB]ABc|d2 (3BcB AG-G2|[de]-[ee]-[e2e2]-[ee][de][ee][de]|[e2e2]((3edc A)[c3e3] J[A4f4]-[Af]e (3[Af]ga|[A3b3]a (fga2)|[B4g4]-[Bg][Ba][Bg][Ba]|1[B4g4]D2B2:|2[B6g6]|| |:d2|[B4b4]-[Bb][Ba][Bb][Ba]|[Bb][Ba][B2f2]- [Bf][Bf]-[B2a2]|[B4g4]- [Bg][Ba][Bg][Ba]|[B4g4](d[d3g3])| [B4b4]-[Bb][Ba][Bb]a|[B2g2][B2g2][B2f2][B2g2]|[A4a4]- [Aa]b [Aa]b |[A4a4]d4| [B4b4]-[Bb][Ba][Bb]a|[B2g2]g2 ([Ba]g)e2|[c6e6]([ce]d)| [c2e2][c2e2][B2e2][c2e2]| J[A4f4]-[Af]e (3[Af]ga|[A4b4]J[A4a4]|[B4g4]- [Bg][Ba][Bg][Ba]|[B6g6]:|]


Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers (L. to R., Oscar Jenkins, Frank Jenkins, Ernest Stoneman).
SUNNY HOME IN DIXIE. American, Reel. USA; southwestern Va., western N.C. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Sunny Home in Dixie" was a Galax, Va./western North Carolina regional standard, categorized more-or-less as a reel although its structure is that of a song rather than a breakdown. It was a "show" piece of Dobson, North Carolina, banjoist and fiddler Frank Jenkins (1888-1945), "that won him countless blue ribbons" (Richard Nevins). Jenkins recorded the tune with his band, the Pilot Mountaineers (Frank Jenkins on fiddle, his son Oscar Jenkins on banjo and Ernest "Pop" Stoneman on guitar and vocals[1]), for Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana, in Sept., 1929. Frank and Oscar were equally adept at the banjo and fiddle, and often traded playing roles.



The melody was also recorded by John and Bess Lomax in 1937 for Library of Congress (AFS 01349 A01) from the playing of Galax, Va., shop-keeper and banjo player John Rector with his band the Wildcats[2].


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Frank Jenkins [Milliner & Koken].

Printed sources : - Clare Milliner & Walt Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; pp. 638-639. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 153.

Recorded sources : - County 507, Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers - "Old Time Fiddle Classics." Document Records DOCD-8023, “Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters & Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order 1927-1929" (1998). Flying Cloud FC-023, Kirk Sutphin - "Fiddlin' Around." Living Folk LFR 104, Allan Block - "Alive and Well and Fiddling." Old Hat CD-1006, Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers - "In the Pines: Tar Heel Folk Songs & Fiddle Tunes. Old-Time Music of North Carolina 1926–1936" (2008).

See also listing at :
Hear Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers 1929 recording at youtube.com [1] and Slippery Hill [2]

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  1. ↑ The group was also known as 'Oscar Jenkins' Mountaineers', and Gennett's subsidiary labels, Supertone and Conqueror, respectively listed the band as 'Riley's Mountaineers' and to 'Alex Gordon')
  2. ↑ which included, among others, Kelly Lundy, fiddler Emmett Lundy's son.
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