Kennedy Rag
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Kennedy Rag" is an old-time country rag in F Major. <br> The parts are played AA'BB.<br> It was composed by fiddler Charlie Stripling (1896-1966), who named it for<br> Kennedy, in southeastern Lamar County, where he had relocated, but near his<br> birthplace in Pickens County, west Alabama. Kennedy had a population 277 at that<br> time of release of the recording in 1929 on the Vocalion label (a subsidiary of<br> Brunswick Records). The town had just completed construction of the Kennedy<br> High School in 1927, although when it burned in 1984 it was not replaced and<br> students now attend Lamar County schools. <br> "Kennedy Rag", described by Charlie Stripling as a "ragtime breakdown", was<br> one of ten numbers recorded by the brothers in Chicago, Ill., in 1929, based<br> on the success of their initial 1928 Brunswick recording of "The Lost Child" and<br> "Black Mountain Rag".<br> It was printed in Milliner & Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle<br> Tunes (2011),<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995) and<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002).<br> It was recorded The Stripling Brothers on Lost Child (1971) and on<br> The Stripling Brothers vol. 1 and<br> on a 78 RPM record (1929) backed with "New Born Blues".<br> <br>
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