Twenty-eighth of January
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Twenty-eighth of January", also known as "Miller's Reel"<br> is an American reel in cut time and A Dorian. The parts are played AB (Silberberg) or<br> AABB (most versions).<br> Alan Jabbour saw the title of this tune as a condensation of the names of two other tunes;<br> the well‑known<br> "The Eighth of January"<br> (the date of Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans) and<br> "The Twenty Second of February"<br> (the date of Washington’s birthday and the title that<br> "Miller's Reel" appears under in George Knauff's 1839 publication Virginia Reels). He believes<br> "The Twenty Eighth of January" to be a minor version of<br> "Miller's Reel".<br> Modern ‘revival’ fiddlers source the tune from Bluefield, West Virginia, fiddler Franklin<br> George, who learned it from his mentor Jim Farthing. Farthing was a fiddler from Virginia<br> near the North Carolina border who had moved to West Virginia for mining related jobs and<br> who performed carpentry with George’s father.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973),<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002), Songer's Portland Collection (1997) and<br> Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980).<br> It was recorded by Reed Island Rounders on Wolves in the Wood (1997),<br> Fuzzy Mountain String Band on Fuzzy Mountain String Band (1972) and<br> Bing Brothers on Old Time Music on the Air, vol. 2 (1996).<br>
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