X:1
T: Wandering Boy
N:From the solo playing of fiddler and banjo player Frank Jenkins (1888-c. 1945,
N:Dobson, Surry County, western N.C.)
M:C
L:1/8
R:Song Air
N:AEae tuning (fiddle)
Q:"Moderately quick"
D:Gennett 6165 (78 RPM), Frank Jenkins (1927)
D:Document DOCD 8023, "DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters &
D:Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers , 1927-1929" (2005).
D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/wandering-boy
Z:Andrew Kuntz
K:A
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Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters. Frank Jenkins is the banjo player to the far right.WANDERING BOY. American, Song Air (4/4 time). USA, western North Carolina. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is sourced to the 1927 solo fiddle recording by Dobson, Surry County, North Carolina, fiddler and banjo player Frank Jenkins (1888-c.1945) of the intertwined groups Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters as well as Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers. The group recorded only one time, in Richmond, Indiana, cutting 18 sides over a few days. Jenkins' solo is an instrumental version of a song air.
The Carter Family recorded a song called "Wandering Boy," but it employs a distanced melody from what Jenkins played.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Clare Milliner & Walt Koken (The Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 703.
Recorded sources : - Gennett Records 6165 (78 RPM), Frank Jenkins (1927). Document Records DOCD 8023, "Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters & Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers (1927-1929)" (2005). Flying Fish FF 334, The Red Clay Ramblers - “It Ain’t Right” (1986. Learned from the playing of Tommy Jarrell and Frank Jenkins).
See also listing at : Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear Frank Jenkins' 78 RPM on youtube.com [2] and at Slippery Hill [3]
Hear/see Adam Hurt's banjo version on youtube.com [4]
