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TALK TO DINAH. AKA - "Who's Gonna Talk to Dinah?" American, Reel (cut time). USA, Missiouri. A Major. Standard or AEae tuning (fiddle). AABB. According to Missouri fiddler Pete McMahon (Bluffton, Montgomery County, Mo.), sources Searns and Jackson (Franklin County, central Mo.) were the only fiddlers to originally play this tune (Howard Marshall). “Talk to Dinah” is now one of the '100 essential Missouri fiddle tunes' according to Missouri fiddler Charlie Walden.


Additional notes



Printed sources : - Clare Milliner & Walt Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 647.

Recorded sources : - Rounder 381, Fred Stoneking - "Saddle Old Spike" (1996). Voyager VRCD 3 44, Howard Marshall & John Williams – “Fiddling Missouri” (1999. From Franklin, Mo., fiddlers Claude Stearns and Charlie Jackson via Pete McMahan). Voyager CD VRD366, “50 Old Time Gems.” Vi Wickham - "Armadillo on a Hot Tin Roof."

See also listing at :
Hear the tune at Slippery Hill [1]
Hear Charlie Walden play the tune at youtube.com [2]



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