Forks of Sandy
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
Also known as "Roll 'em Up Sandy", "Three Forks of Sandy",<br> and "Three Forks of Big Sandy".<br> The title refers to the Big Sandy River on the West Virginia/Kentucky<br> border, the 3 forks being the Big Sandy River, Levisa Fork and Tug Fork.<br> Oscar Wright maintained the song was popularized in his area of West Virginia<br> (Mercer County) by North Carolina banjo player and band leader Charlie Poole<br> and his fiddler Posey Rorer when they played the area in 1916, 17 or 18.<br> He claimed to have learned it directly from Rorer. West Virginia fiddler<br> Clark Kessinger (1896-1975), who probably learned the tune as a boy in the<br> Kanawha Valley, recorded the melody in 1930 for Brunswick Records<br> (as “Three Forks of Sandy”). It was also recorded by Kirk Sutphin,<br> John Hartford and others.<br> I play this in medleys with:<br> "John Brown's March"<br> "Greasy String"<br> both in this section.<br>
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