Apltrez - Posted - 03/06/2010:  16:11:57

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I am heard this tune at a recent session. Apparently Alice Gerard learned it from Luther. Anybody able to point me to a source to listen to?

Thanks

coelhoe - Posted - 03/07/2010:  07:05:42

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Try this site: library.timelesstruths.org/mus...e_Valley/

It is a fairly common old hymn from the 1880's.

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Edited by - coelhoe on 03/07/2010 07:06:29

Dan Gellert - Posted - 03/07/2010:  07:50:16

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Originally posted by coelhoe

Try this site: library.timelesstruths.org/mus...e_Valley/

It is a fairly common old hymn from the 1880's.

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That hymn is set to the VERY popular tune of "Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane", which doesn't at all sound to me like the source of the Luther Davis tune.

I remember a while back running across an antebellum minstrel song called "Lilly of the Valley"... I'll have to go looking for that again. At the time I didn't see any clear connection between it and the fiddle tune, but there are lots of early published pop songs which became fiddle tunes, some of which now share not much more than a title with their sources.

As for the tune in question, I think frfiddle on FH may have posted a file of Luther playing it on the jukebox a year or two ago, among all the great field recordings he shared with the community.

Apltrez - Posted - 03/07/2010:  10:47:25

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Thanks to all including AZ JohnB and Bosco. Dan, you are correct, the one I was looking for was not the hymn. AzJohn B sent an MP3 of Alice Gerard as well as one of Luther playing it late in his life. great tune

Thanks to all again

Greg