Altamont
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Altamont" is an American reel in cut time and C Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> Altamont is a town on the Cumberland Plateau (Ky./Tenn. border area). The tune was in<br> repertoire of the African-American string band the John Lusk Band. It was their version<br> of that tune that was issued on the Rounder CD "Altamont" and was from taken from a 1949<br> recording session that Stu and Gloria Jamieson (and others) had with Lusk, Gribble, and<br> York, according to Kerry Blech. They also recorded the tune in a 1946 session that was<br> recorded onto instantaneous aluminum disks. The 1949 session was recorded on a wire<br> recorder (the version is noticeably different than their 1946 recording).<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. His comments:<br> Mostly from Bruce Molsky and Bob Carlin. Mind The B and B-Alt parts. They can be inserted<br> for each other in many ways. Consult your fiddler!<br> <br> It was printed in Clare Milliner & Walt Koken's Milliner & Koken Collection of American<br> Fiddle Tunes (2011),<br> Silberberg's The Complete Fiddle Tunes I Either Did or Didn't Learn at the Tractor<br> Tavern (2007) and<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021),<br> It was recorded by Bruce Molsky and Bob Carlin -on Take Me as I Am (2004),<br> Gribble, Lusk & York on Altamont on Black String Band Music From the Library of<br> Congress (1989) and<br> Hart and Blech on Portland Old Time Music Gathering (2005).<br>
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