Blackberry Blossom

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  • Опубліковано 25 жов 2024
  • "Blackberry Blossom" is a fiddle tune in the key of G major.[1] It is classified as a "breakdown" and is popular in old time, bluegrass and Celtic traditional circles
    The tune has been in over 250 tune books. The tune became popular as recorded by Fiddlin' Arthur Smith. That version, according to Alan Jabbour, supplanted an earlier tune played by Santford Kelly from Morgan County, Kentucky, which is now represented by the tune "Yew Piney Mountain".
    The Yew Piney Mountain variant is also called "Garfield's Blackberry Blossom", perhaps to distinguish it from the earlier version. Of the two tunes, Andrew Kuntz writes to the effect that "Betty Vornbrock and others have noted a similarity between 'Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom' and the West Virginia tune 'Yew Piney Mountain', a variant ... also played by Kentucky fiddlers J.P. Fraley and Santford Kelly". Alan Snyder gives an alternate name of "Strawberry Beds".[9] It is not clear whether the earlier melody of Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom evolved into Arthur Smith’s version or if the two were always separate. Charles Wolfe wrote in his book “The Devil’s Box” that Smith’s tune was named in a radio contest in which listeners submitted suggestions for his unnamed piece.
    (credits Wikipedia)

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