Wild Rose of the Mountain
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Wild Rose of the Mountain" is an old-time reel in A Major/Mixolydian. The parts are<br> played AA’B (Silberberg), AABB (Brody, Phillips) or AA'BB' (Reiner & Anick).<br> The tune, popularized via the playing of Kentucky fiddler J.P. Fraley (1924–2011),<br> is a moderately paced reel, played deliberately almost as a listening tune.<br> The story attached to the tune, according to Reiner & Anick, says it was "written for<br> a beautiful girl who strayed from one man to the next at local (Kentucky.) dances"<br> although their source for this tale is unknown.<br> There is some discrepancy about whether<br> the G note in the next to last measure of the second strain should be sharp or natural.<br> There are similarities with Henry Reed’s "Kitchen Girl".<br> The tune is crooked with irregular measures in both parts.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983) and<br> Guitar Picker's Fakebook (1984),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995),<br> Reiner & Anick's Old Time Fiddling Across America (1989) and<br> Silberberg's Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern (2002).<br> It was recorded by Cape Cod Fiddlers on Concert Collection II (1999),<br> Fiddle Fever on Fiddle Fever (1981. Appears as part of "Daybreak in the Mountains")<br> John McCutcheon on Fine Times at Our House (1982),<br> The Wind That Shakes the Barley (1977) and<br> Water from Another Time. A Retropective (1989),<br> Jay Ungar and Lyn Hardy on Songs, Ballads, and Fiddle Tunes (1975),<br> J.P. and Annadeene Fraley on Wild Rose of the Mountain (1974),<br> J.P. Fraley on Rounder Fiddle (1990) and<br> David Schnaufer on Collecting Dust (1999).<br>
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