Shenandoah Falls
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Shenandoah Falls" is an American reel in cut time in A Major. The parts are played AABB<br> (Johnson) or AA'BB (Phillips).<br> Clyde Curley and Susan Songer, in notes to The Portland Collection (1997), trace the tune:<br> Vermont fiddler Pete Sutherland learned it from West Coast musician<br> Carol Robinson, who learned it as an untitled reel from a mandolin<br> player named 'Cookie', once a fellow student with her at Sonoma State College.<br> It is thought Sutherland titled it, perhaps thinking it reminiscent of<br> Bill Monroe's bluegrass composition "Shenandoah Breakdown".<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. His comments:<br> Learned from John Lamancusa and the Gettysburg Jam folks.<br> It was printed in Cooper's American Old Time Fiddle Tunes,<br> Johnson's The Kitchen Musician No. 2: Occasional Collection of Old-Timey Fiddle<br> Tunes for Hammer Dulcimer, Fiddle, etc. (1982) (revised 1988 & 2003),<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021),<br> Levenson's Old-Time Favorites for Fiddle and Mandolin (2014),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Songer's Portland Collection (1997).<br> It was recorded by Boiled Buzzards on Fine Dining (1991),<br> Randy Zombola on Snowflake Breakdown (1986),<br> Pete Sutherland on Eight Miles From Town (1982),<br> Grand Picnic on Contra Roots and Branches (2004) and<br> A Band Named Bob on A Band Named Bob.<br>
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