For enthusiasts of early banjo

Tune of the Week-Alabama Joe

Anyone feel like reviving the Tune Of The Week?

We pick one....post music, tabs, videos etc. Discuss it.

Anyone up for it?

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Permalink Reply by Al Smitley on February 17, 2015 at 12:40pm

I guess you could highlight the websites/YouTube addresses and paste them into the internet if you want to see/hear them.

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Permalink Reply by Leonidas (Lee) Jones on February 17, 2015 at 1:17pm

I guess th2e problem has to do woth the parenthesese in the url. I managed to get there doing some tricks of copy/paste, but if I paste here, I bet it does the same thing. well, lets see: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/amss:@field(DOCID+@lit(as100140))%22

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Permalink Reply by Tim Twiss on February 17, 2015 at 1:53pm

Go to levy's. We have a link here on resources. There are 2 versions there. Also, google LOC and there are lyrics there.

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Permalink Reply by Strumelia on February 17, 2015 at 3:21pm

Ok, I'm still trying to understand why when i google images for "Alabama Joe"+broadside.... I get: pictures of Martin Luther King, and guys with rifles in wheelchairs posing with dead deer and moose. (wtf?? scary) lolol . just when you thought it was safe to go back on the internet...

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Permalink Reply by Tim Twiss on February 17, 2015 at 3:30pm

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=alab...

This is good. 2 version...grapes and lyrics.

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Permalink Reply by Strumelia on February 17, 2015 at 4:28pm

Hmm...well I guess there'll be lots of "fellers" in that one. =8-\

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Permalink Reply by Al Smitley on February 17, 2015 at 4:37pm

Here's a contrafact of "Wet Sheet And A Flowing Sea"...or "Alabama Joe". It's from 1848, undoubtedly to assist Zachary Taylor in his bid for the Presidency.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Gibson on February 17, 2015 at 5:05pm

We had a short discussion about Alabama Joe/Trelawney/Song of the Western Men in January of 2012. Has anyone come across an attribution for the minstrel lyrics. The tunes are no doubt the same, but who wrote the minstrel lyrics? And, was the tune picked up by the minstrels as they toured Great Britain; or, from Cornish miners who migrated to the U.S. (Wisconsin -1830s; New Jersey -mid-1850s; Tennessee and Alabama - 1850ish?

Any other thoughts?

(P.S. --Oops, just saw the sheet music Tim posted attributing the lyrics to R.W. Smith. Still begs the question where/how he picked up the tune