Apple Blossom
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Apple Blossom" is an American reel in cut or 2/4 time and D Major. The parts are<br> played AB (Titon/Bowles), AABB (Phillips, Titon/Monday) or AABBB (Bowles).<br> It is often played in ADae fiddle tuning.<br> The tune was not widely known outside the northern Tennessee/south-central Kentucky<br> area known as the Cumberland Plateau, but there are several field recordings of<br> fiddlers from the region born in the 19th century playing it.<br> It was printed in Clare Milliner & Walt Koken's<br> Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001).<br> The version printed in Brody's The Fiddler's Fakebook (1983) is a different tune.<br> It was recorded by The Renegades on I Need to Find (1995),<br> Jim Bowles on Railroading Through the Rocky Mountains (1994),<br> John Lusk, Murph Gribble and Albert York on Altamont - Black String Band Music From<br> the Library of Congress (1989, originally recorded in 1949) and<br> Bruce Molsky.<br>
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