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"Jim Shank", also known as "Jimmy Shenk" or "Jimmy Shanks" is an American reel in
cut time and A Major. It is often played in AEae fiddle tuning. The parts are
played AA'BB'.
It is a southern Kentucky tune recorded in the field from the playing of fiddler Sam Dyer by Bruce Greene. The banjo tablature is by John Letscher who first learned it from Burt Feintuch and Bruce Green. It was printed in Milliner & Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011) and Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021) (appears as "Jimmy Shank"). It was recorded by Ken Bloom and Harry Bollick on That Banjo from Hell: Fiddle Tunes & Uncivil Songs of Conflict (2000). |