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GUEST, Dale Lyr Add: Frail Wildwood Flower (from Miller Wikel) (12) RE: Origins: WWVA Wheeling, W. VA 'Wildwood Flower' 02 Dec 02


Nice to see my site getting some use, though it hasn't been updated in ages. Every now and then I am researching something and "Good Old Songs" comes up in the search.

I agree with Spaw about the Miller Wilkel version. It is just enough different from the old tried and true to be something "new", even if it does date from 1928. Some young people I know do WWF as primarily a frailing banjo number, and an even younger duo ~~ not even teenagers yet, treat it alternately as either an a capella duet, or a solo while the other dances out the rhythm. These are all quite nice, and add to the theory that you don't have to "Do it like Earl" or in this case, TCF, for it to be "right" and a pleasure to listen to.

Oh, and in related stuff from that page, I DO have a photo of Ellis Hall (Little Home In West Virginia) now, along with an article about him from Bluegrass Unlimited and recordings of his other three fiddle tunes, sent by another collector ~~ Stoney Fork, Sleepy-Eyed Joe, and Foggy Valley, all rare gems. For those interested in more info, the BU article was mostly researched from The Devil's Box, Volume 13, No. 2, June 1979 ~~ Foggy Valley, The Story Of Ellis Hall by Charles K. Wolfe and Carl Fleischhauer.


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