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Annotation:Two White Nickels
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TWO WHITE NICKELS. AKA - “Two Wide Nickels.” American, Reel (cut or 2/4 time). USA, Ohio. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Clyde Curley[1] suggests the title was derived from racist terminology. When paired with the tune “Three Thin Dimes” the medley has jokingly been called the “Forty Cent Medley.” Both tunes, notes Kerry Blech, were in the repertoire of Barnesville, Ohio, fiddler John W. Hutchison (1915-1979), who said he had many of his tunes from ‘old man’ Bondy, an Irishman. They were recorded by the Hutchison Brothers bluegrass band, which included two of Hutchison’s sons and fiddler Greg Dearth. John Hutchison himself was recorded before he died by Jeff Goehring, in 1977; the remastered tapes were published on a CD by Ohio University (Athens) in 2003.
- ↑ The Portland Collection, 1997
