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