Nancy Blevins
Notation:
Standard Notation
ABC Notation
Banjo Tablature
Mandolin Tablature
Violin Tablature
/
PDF Files:
--- choose file type ---
Standard Notation
Banjo Tablature
Mandolin Tablature
Violin Tablature
Tune Sheet
Standard Notation - wide
Mandolin Tablature - wide
Violin Tablature - wide
Banjo Tablature - wide
Play
MIDI
No audio
available
Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Nancy Blevins" is an American reel and song in cut time and D Major.<br> It is played in ADad tuning. The parts are played AB.<br> The melody is known as a Surry County, North Carolina, regional tune,<br> sourced to fiddler and instrument maker Albert Hash (1917-1983), who lived<br> in nearby Whitetop Mountain, Grayson County, Virginia.<br> Albert Hash (1917-1983) said he learned the tune from Jim Reedy, who<br> learned it from his father, Bob Reedy.<br> Apparently, Nancy Blevins (11/5/1852 - 1/30/1939) was related to Hash's<br> grandfather and in her time was a noted fiddler. She was also said to smoke<br> a pipe and practice witchcraft (probably an echo of the old belief that<br> expertise on the fiddler was related to the devil.<br> The tune is similar in the first strain to another tune by a regional<br> fiddler, Norman Edmonds, called<br> "Hawks and Eagles".<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher who says:<br> From the playing of Allison DeGroot and Tatiana Hargreaves. Best at<br> breakneck speed.<br> It was recorded by Albert Hash on Albert Hash vol. 1: Recordings from the<br> collection of Kilby Spencer (2015),<br> Albert Hash & Thornton Spencer on Old Originals, vol. 2 (1978),<br> Wade Ward on Uncle Wade on A Memorial to Wade Ward: Old Time Virginia Banjo<br> Picker, 1892-1971 (1973) and<br> Allison DeGroot and Tatiana Hargreaves on youtube.<br>
Click
here
for a full page view.