Going to the Wedding to Get a Piece of Cake
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Alvis Massengale
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Going to the Wedding to Get a Piece of Cake" is an American reel in G Major. <br> The tune comes from the<br> Newton County Hillbillies, a Mississippi String Band active in the late 1920s and<br> early 1930s. Based in Newton County - in the east central part of the state between<br> Jackson and Meridian - the group recorded six sides for Okeh Records in Jackson<br> in December of 1930. Their version of "Going to the Wedding to Get a Piece of Cake"<br> is the only source for the tune.<br> The Newton County Hillbillies consisted of Alvis Massengale on fiddle, Andrew Harrison<br> on guitar and Marcus Harrison on mandolin. They were a relatively obscure local group<br> that disbanded not long after making their records. In the early 1970s, Gus Meade and<br> a few other folk music researchers tracked Alvis Massengale down, still living in Newton<br> County and convinced him to take up the fiddle again. Like "Going to the Wedding", many of<br> the tunes he played are quite rare or unique and are evidently local to his particular<br> corner of Mississippi. In separate sessions, Gus Meade and Howard Marshall recorded<br> about 30 of his tunes and Alvis played at the 1974 Smithsonian Folklife Festival,<br> which featured Mississippi musicians. He died in 1993 at the age of 96.<br> Alvis' solo version of the tune can be found on the Field Recorders Collective's CD of<br> those 1970s recordings.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> It was printed in Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> The Newton County Hillbillies' original 1930 recording of the tune is available on<br> County Records Missisippi String Bands, Volume 2 (1998).<br>
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