Betty Baker
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Betty Baker" is an American reel in cut time and G Major. It is played in GDad fiddle tuning.<br> The parts are played AABB.<br> The tune has been called a 'West Virginia standard' but versions also were<br> played in east Kentucky. This version of the tune is from Copen, Braxton County,<br> central W.Va., fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003) and it was in the repertoire<br> of Ernie Carpenter (related to, not closely, French Carpenter), who learned<br> the reel from legendary fiddler Uncle Jack McElwain (1856-1938) of<br> Webster County, W.Va. Wine learned the tune from Tom Allen a member of a musical<br> family from around Napier, Braxton County. Gerry Milnes (Play of a Fiddle, 1999)<br> says at least six members of the family were fiddlers, although all have since died.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. His comment:<br> Initially from the playing of Tom, Brad and Alice. Latest modifications<br> from listening to Mr. Wine. No one more engaging!<br> It was recorded by Melvin Wine on Hannah at the Springhouse (1989) and<br> Christian Wig & Mark Ward on Come Back Boys & Feed the Horses: Fiddling on the<br> Frontier (2011). <br>
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