Lake Erie
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Lake Erie" is an American reel in cut time and A Major (Sharp) or D Major (Songer).<br> It is played in AEae or standard fiddle tuning. The parts are played AA'BB'.<br> This is a fiddle tune from the repertoire of Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee, fiddler<br> John Sharp (1894-1964) from Sharp Place Community near Jamestown. Sharp formed the<br> Kentucky Wildcats with banjo player Virgil Anderson. He was recorded on a home wire<br> machine in the late 1940's by his neighbor, Sergeant Alvin York, a hero of World War I.<br> Florida fiddler Kerry Blech played it in the key of 'D' as he felt in played better.<br> His version was printed in Songer's Portland Collection, vol. 2 (2005).<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher who got it from "Molsky and Carlin plus a<br> really good video From Milliner and Koken".<br> It was printed in Songer's Portland Collection, vol. 2 (2005),<br> Milliner and Koken's The Milliner - Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011) and<br> Drew Beisswenger, Roy Andrade and Scott Prouty's Appalachian Fiddle Music (2021).<br> It was recorded by Bruce Molsky & Bob Carlin on Take Me as I Am (1983) (Appears as the<br> 2nd part of the "John Sharp's Tunes" medley). <br>
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