Sleepy-Eyed Joe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Sleepy-Eyed Joe" is an American reel in cut time and E Major (Phillips) or<br> D Major (Hall/Addis). The parts are played AABBC.<br> The best known version of the tune is from John Ashby (1915-1979) of Fauquier County,<br> Virginia. John Ashby played this AABBC and finished by playing AAB.<br> Circa 1940 John Ashby formed the Free State Ramblers, a band consisting of family and<br> musician friends. "Free State" refers to a 12 square mile area near Warrenton, Virginia<br> that declared itself “free” in 1806, refusing to pay rent or taxes to landowner Chief<br> Justice John Marshall.<br> “Sleepy Eyed Joe” is one of ‘100 essential Missouri tunes’ listed by Missouri fiddler<br> Charlie Walden.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> It was printed in Beisswenger & McCann's Ozarks Fiddle Music (2008),<br> R.P. Christeson's Old Time Fiddler’s Repertory, vol. 1 (1973),<br> Phillips's Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> It was recorded by<br> John Ashby and the Free State Ramblers on Fiddling by the Hearth (1978),<br> Ellis Hall and Bill Addis and The Green Mountain Boys (1952) (45 RPM),<br> Norman Blake on Whiskey Before Breakfast (1987) and<br> Foghorn String Band on Weiser Sunrise (2005).<br>
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