Twin Sisters (American)
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Twin Sisters" also known as "Grandfather's Tune", "Jennie Baker", "The Old Ark's a-Moving" and<br> "The Two Sisters" is an American reel in 4/4 or cut time in D Major. The parts are played AB<br> or AA'BB'.<br> "Twin Sisters" is a floating title that is appended to a variety of tunes, perhaps in<br> association with dance figures.<br> The melody is a variant of the hornpipe "The Boys of Bluehill". Several West Virginia<br> versions were recorded (e.g. Ernie Carpenter, Melvin Wine).<br> This is very different from several other tunes that are<br> known by the same name. One is an English country dance and another<br> is a New England variant of "Farewell to Whiskey" (in the Legacies section).<br> It was printed in<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021) and<br> Susan Songer & Clyde Curley's Portland Collection vol. 2 (2005).<br> It was recorded by Ernie Carpenter on Elk River Blues: Traditional Tunes from Braxton<br> County, W.Va. (1986),<br> Sherman Wimmer on Old Originals, vol. I (1978),<br> Putnam String County Band on Home Grown (1973),<br> Vivian Williams & Barbara Lamb on Twin Sisters (1975),<br> The Reeltime Travelers on The Reeltime Travelers (2000) and<br> Chance McCoy and The Appalachian String Band on Chance McCoy and The Appalachian String<br> Band (2008).<br>
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