Sandy River Belle
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Sandy River Belle", also known as "Tugboat and Pineywoods", "Stony Ridge Stomp" and<br> "Sandy River Belles" is an old-time breakdown in G Major (Brody, Kaufman, Krassen, Phillips,<br> Songer, Spadaro) or A Major. The parts are played AABB (most versions) or AA'BB' (Phillips).<br> Two theories about the name are:<br> 1) that it's about a river boat called "Sandy River Belle" and<br> 2) that it's about debutantes in the region of the Sandy River.<br> The Big Sandy River marks the border between West Virginia and<br> Kentucky and then flows into the Ohio.<br> Krassen (1973) states that this is "a fairly common tune in the Galax area".<br> Ken Perlman (1979) states the tune comes from the region around the small Blue Ridge<br> foothills town of Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia.<br> It was originally recorded for Victor Records in Bristol, Tennessee, by Ralph Peer from the<br> playing of the Blue Ridge group Dad Blackard's Moonshiners in August, 1927.<br> I play the B part two ways on the banjo. In B1 the melody is played with hammer-ons and<br> pull-offs with the thumb playing mainly the fifth string. In B2, everything is played on the<br> two highest strings with the thumb playing mainly the B string and only occasionally playing<br> the fifth string.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Kaufman's Beginning Old Time Fiddle (1977),<br> Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973) (Krassen's version has the A and B parts reversed<br> from Brody's version),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Songer's Portland Collection (1997) and<br> Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980).<br> It was recorded by<br> John Burke and the Yankee Carpetbaggers on Old Fashioned Dance Music (1968),<br> Buddy Pendleton on Virginia Breakdown,<br> Sharon Shannon on The Best of Sharon Shannon: Spellbound (1999),<br> Sarah Grey and Ed Trickett on Sarah Grey with Ed Trickett (1970),<br> Fennigs All-Star String Band on The Hammered Dulcimer (1973),<br> Kretzner and Leibovitz on Pigtown Fling (1979),<br> The Shelor Family and The Kimble Family on Eight Miles Apart: Old Time Music from<br> Patrick and Carroll County, Virginia (1979),<br> Hollow Rock String Band on Hollow Rock String Band (1974),<br> Doc Williams on Old Originals, Vol. 1 (1978),<br> Bert Edwards on Bert's Bombaree (1988),<br> Dad Blackard's Moonshiners (78 RPM) (1927) and<br> American Cafe Orchestra on Egyptian Dominoes (1992).<br> <br>
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