Piney Woods Gal
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Piney Woods Gal" is an American, reel in cut time known in southwestern Va., western N.C.,<br> Tennessee and Alabama in G Major. The parts are played AABB or AA'BB. The B part has 10 measures.<br> The tune has been traced to Galax, Virginia, fiddler Green Leonard via Emmett Lundy (b. 1864) via<br> Luther Davis, of Grayson County, Virginia. A tune by this name was commonly played by Rock Ridge,<br> Alabama, fiddlers in the 1920's. According to different accounts, Mt. Airy, North Carolina, fiddler<br> Tommy Jarrell learned the tune in the 1920's when he played in a band with Frank Jenkins and Bryce<br> Goodson. He noted the similarity of the tune to<br> "Katy Hill" (which he thought was derived from "Piney Woods Gal") and<br> "Sally Johnson" (which he thought was derived from "Katie Hill"):<br> "There's three tunes played just about like that, right there"<br> (from a 1982 interview with Peter Anick).<br> Galax fiddler Emmett Lundy recorded the tune in New York City in May, 1925, accompanied by<br> E.V. Stoneman on harmonica.<br> He recorded it again for Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress, in Galax, Va., in 1941, accompanied<br> by his son, Kelly Lundy, on guitar. <br> It was printed in Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Songer's Portland Collection, vol. 2 (2005).<br> It was recorded by Emmett Lundy,<br> Kirk Sutphin on Old Roots and New Branches (1994),<br> Frank Bode with Tommy Jarrell and Paul Brown on Been Riding with Old Mosby (1986),<br> Tommy Jarrell on Joke on the Puppy (1976),<br> Emmett Lundy & Earnest Stoneman (1925) (One of only two commercial recordings Lundy made),<br> Luther Davis on Old Originals, Vol 2 (1978),<br> The Tompkins County Horseflies on Chokers and Flies (1985),<br> Charlie Higgins & Wade Ward on Southern Journey V. 2: Ballads and Breakdowns -- Songs from the<br> Southern Mountains (1997),<br> Tommy Jarrell with Frank Bode on Classic Old-Time Fiddle from Smithsonian Folkways (2007),<br> Lundy & Stoneman on Times Ain't Like They Used To Be, Vol. 2: Early American Rural Music Classic<br> Recordings from the 1920s and 30s and<br> Matt Brown & Greg Reish on Speed of the Plow (2015).<br>
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