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"Boys My Money's all Gone" is an American reel in cut time and A Dorian or Mixolydian/Dorian.
The parts are played AABB.
Old-time versions of "Money in Both Pockets" are sourced to a February, 1929, recording by East Tennessee fiddler Charlie Bowman (1889-1962) and his Brothers, called "Moonshiner and His Money", which was Columbia Records first entree into recording early country music. "Moonshiner and His Money" was a skit with music, along the lines of the Skillet Licker's successful similar recordings. There were two tunes played in between the banter, "Money in Both Pockets" and "Boys My Money's All Gone". The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. His notes: First heard from The New Lost City Ramblers then reinforced by Erynn Marshall and Claire and Walt.It was printed in Kaufman's Beginning Old Time Fiddle (1977), Milliner and Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011), Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and Reiner's Anthology of Fiddle Styles (1979). It was recorded by Charlie Bowman and His Brothers (78 RPM) (1929), Old Time Fiddle Classics (1965) and Rural String Bands of Tennessee (1997), The New Lost City Ramblers on Songs from the Depression (1959) and Erynn Marshall on Tune Tramp (2012). |