Sally Ann Johnson
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Sally Ann Johmnson" is an old-time breakdown, well known in Virginia and West<br> Virginia in D Major. It is usually played AABB although some variants use a<br> modified 4th strain (AABB'). <br> Alan Jabbour collected it from Henry Reed but Reed's version is different from the<br> usual versions and is circular in form. It is different from "Sally Johnson"<br> although that tune is sometimes called "Sally Ann Johnson" and also from<br> "Sally Ann" (a song).<br> This piece was a favorite competition number for St. Albans, West Virginia fiddler<br> Clark Kessinger (1896-1975) at fiddlers' contests. Kessinger played the tune at the<br> Newport Folk Festival in 1966 and recorded it for LP's in the 1960's but seems<br> not to have recorded it earlier in his career.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983), Phillips' Traditional<br> American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and Songer's Portland Collection (1997).<br> It has been recorded by Clark Kessinger, Henry Reed, A, C, Robertson, Alan Jabbour<br> and Ken Perlman.<br> <br> <br>
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