West Fork Girls
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"West Fork Girls" also known as "West Fork Gals" or "Westfort Gals" is an American<br> reel in D Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> It is known as a (central) West Virginia tune. Perlman (1979) thinks it may be related to<br> the Irish reel<br> "The Wexford Lasses".<br> Clay County, West Virginia, fiddler Wilson Douglas identifies<br> the location of the title as the West Fork of the Little Kanawha river, in West Virginia,<br> and thinks that influential regional fiddler Ed Haley learned the<br> tune in Clay County, W. Va. The West Fork is where "they used to have their big dances<br> when (his mentor, French Carpenter) was a young man, back when they were logging,"<br> states Douglas, who also said that French played the tune in the 1920's along with one<br> Anderson Dawson, who knew Ed Haley. Gerry Milnes says the river flows through Calhoun<br> County, W.Va. and that there is a large, traditional old-time music community in that<br> area. Krassen (1973) notes the tune is popular with fiddlers in the Gilmer County,<br> West Virginia, region.<br> It was printed in<br> Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Carlin's English Concertina (1977),<br> Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002).<br> It was recorded by<br> Rodney and Randy Miller on Castles in the Air,<br> Hollow Rock String Band on Hollow Rock String Band (1974),<br> Fuzzy Mountain String Band on Summer Oaks and Porch (1973),<br> Gerry Milnes & Lorriane Lee Hammond on Hell Up Coal Holler (1999),<br> Wilson Douglas on The Right Hand Fork of Rush's Creek (1975) and<br> John Hartford on Wild Hog in the Red Brush and a Bunch of Others<br> You Might Not Have Heard (1996).<br>
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