Old Flannigan
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Old Flannigan" is an American reel in cut time in A Major ('A' part) &<br> E Major ('B' part). It is played in standard or AEae fiddle tuning.<br> The parts are played ABB (Songer) or AABB' (Phillips).<br> One story is that the tune was brought north to Kentucky by a fiddler<br> named Brack Flannigan, who was originally from Texas and settled in<br> the Gallatin/Grant County area. It was recorded by a Grant County,<br> northeast Kentucky, band called The Blue Ridge Mountaineers in 1929 in<br> Richmond, Indiana, one of only two sides the group recorded.<br> The Mountaineer's fiddler, Frank Miller, had the tune from his uncle<br> John Hall who had learned it from Flannigan,<br> and Miller and his cousin (John's son, Jarvie Hall) were the only two<br> fiddlers who are known to have played the tune. Having no name for it,<br> they called it after their original source. Whether or not the story is<br> apocryphal, the tune appears to be derived from<br> "Old Mother Flanagan".<br> It is also related to Missouri melody<br> "A & E Rag".<br> Collector John Harrod explains the Ohio River fiddle style, a la Frank<br> Miller, sounds similar to Canadian fiddling, fast and 'notey'.<br> It was printed in Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1<br> (1994) and<br> Songer's Portland Collection (1997).<br> It was recorded by the Blue Ridge Mountaineers (78 RPM) (1929), on<br> Kentucky Mountain Music: Classic Recordings of the 1920s & 1930s, disc 4 and<br> Way Down South in Dixie (1980),<br> Harold Zimmerman on Along the Ohio's Shores, vol. 1 - Fiddle Music<br> Along a Great River (2020).<br>
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