Flannery's Dream
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Flannery's Dream", also known as "Flander's Dream", "Flandery's Dream" or <br> "Son of Hober" is an American reel in cut time and<br> A Minor/Mixolydian. The parts are played ABBC.<br> The reel, according to John Hartford, was very popular in the Big Sandy River valley<br> (the Big Sandy is a tributary of the Ohio river and marks the border between West<br> Virginia and northern Kentucky.<br> It is an archaic-sounding modal tune. It has an unusual structure: the A part has 10<br> measures, the B part has 13 measures, one of them short a beat, and the C part has 8<br> measures.<br> It was in the repertoires of older regional east Kentucky fiddlers. There are several<br> variants of "Flannery's Dream", some differing widely.<br> It was in the repertoire of regionally influential fiddler<br> Ed Haley (1885-1951) according to northeast Kentucky fiddler J.P. Fraley (1923-2011).<br> Bluegrass multi-instumentalist Ricky Skaggs (who learned the tune from Santford Kelly)<br> recorded a version of the reel calling it "Son of Hober," in honor of his father.<br> It was printed in Beisswenger & Andrade's Appalachian Fiddle Tunes (2021),<br> Stephen F. Davis' Devil's Box, vol. 29, No. 1, Spring 1995 and<br> Clare Milliner & Walt Koken's The Milliner Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011).<br> It was recorded by Roger Cooper on Snakewinder,<br> Santford Kelly on Santford Kelly (2005),<br> Emma Lee Dickerson on Along the Ohio's Shores (2003),<br> Ricky Skaggs (appears as "Son of Hober"),<br> John Hartford on Wild Hog in the Red Brush (and a Bunch of Others You Might Not Have<br> Heard) (1996),<br> Alva Greene (et al) on Traditional Fiddle Music of Kentucky, Vol. 1: Up the Ohio and<br> Licking Rivers.<br> Brad Leftwich & Linda Higginbotham on Say Old Man (1996),<br> James Bryan on The First of May (1986),<br> Gerry Milnes & Lorriane Lee Hammond on Hell Up Coal Holler (1999),<br> Bruce Molsky on Warring Cats (2002),<br> Gerry Milnes on Old Time Music,<br> Robin Kessinger on Road Kessinger,<br> The Kessingers on Roots and Branches and<br> Blue Road on Its Been a Long Road.<br>
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