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"Blackberry Blossom" is an American reel in cut time and G Major ('A' part) & E Minor ('B' part).
The parts are played ABB (Christeson), ABB' (Berline) and AABB (Brody, Krassen, Lowinger,
Phillips).
I have known it a long time and can't remember what my source was. This American tune is not the same as the Irish Blackberry Blossom. This tune was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983), R.P. Christeson's Old Time Fiddler's Repertory, vol. 1 (1973), Stephen F. Davis's Devil's Box, vol. 19, No. 4, (Winter 1985), Byron Berline: The Fiddle, Frets, (February 1988), S. Johnson's Kitchen Musician No. 4: Fine Tunes (1983), Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973), Lowinger's Bluegrass Fiddle (1974), Phillips' Fiddle Case Tunebook: Old Time Southern (1989), Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and Reiner's Anthology of Fiddle Styles (1977). It was recorded by Fiddlin' Arthur Smith on Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & his Dixieliners (1935), Sonny Miller & the Southern Mountain Boys on Virginia Breakdown (1966), John Whelan & Eileen Ivers on Fresh Takes (1987), Glen Smith on Say Old Man (1990), Tony Rice on Manzanita (1979), Mark O'Connor on Markology (1979), The Chicken Chokers on Shoot Your Radio (1987), Byron Berline & John Hickman on Double Trouble (1986), Doc Watson on The Essential Doc Watson (1973) and Mark O'Connor on A Texas Jam Session (1977). |