Liberty
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Liberty", also known as "New Liberty", "Reel de Tí-Jean" (Canadian), "Tipsy Parson",<br> "Spanish Polka", "Liberty Dance", "Liberty Two-Step" and "Liberty Hornpipe" is an old-time<br> and bluegrass breakdown in D Major. The parts are played AB (Silberberg) or AABB (most versions).<br> The first recording of the tune was by Texas fiddler Bob Wills in 1947 for Columbia records<br> and although there is no information on where he may have obtained the tune.<br> Early 78 RPM recordings of tunes called "Liberty" by Georgia's Fiddlin' John Carson (1925),<br> Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers (1928, "Liberty off a Corn Liquor Still"), the Tweedy Brothers<br> and Herschel Brown (1928) are different melodies.<br> It was printed in Beisswenger & McCann's Ozarks Fiddle Music (2008),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Carlin's English Concertina (1977),<br> Christeson's Old Time Fiddler's Repertory, vol. 1 (1973),<br> Frets Magazine, "Byron Berline: The Fiddle", December 1986,<br> S. Johnson's Kitchen Musician No. 4: Fine Tunes (1983) (revised 1991, 2001),<br> Milliner & Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011),<br> Phillips' Fiddle Case Tunebook: Old Time Southern (1989),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Reiner's Anthology of Fiddle Styles (1979),<br> Sanella's Balance and Swing (1982),<br> Silberberg's Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern (2002) and<br> Welling's Hartford Tunebook (1976).<br> It was recorded by Don Messer and his Islanders on The Best of Don Messer and his<br> Islanders, Vol. 6 (1953. Appears as "Liberty Two-Step"),<br> Tommy Jackson on Tommy Jackson: The Legendary Session Fiddler,<br> Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys (1947),<br> Fennigs All Stars on The Hammered Dulcimer Strikes Again (1977),<br> Mountain Music by the Kimbles,<br> Art Rosenbaum on Five String Banjo (1973),<br> Pete McMahan on Ozark Mountain Waltz (1987) and<br> Vasser Clements on Crossing the Catskills (1973).<br>
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