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GUEST,George R. Gibson	B.F. Shelton's Darlin Cora (13)	RE: B.F. Shelton's Darlin Cora	05 Jan 04
I grew up in Knott County, which is in east Kentucky. I have played banjo since about 1950. Darlin' Cora was one of my father's favorite banjo songs. He tuned the banjo lower than standard and played Cora in the relative tuning, G-CGCC. I recently bought a recording by Buell Kazee, which has his version of Cora. He sounds the strings one by one before playing Cora. He is also in the G-CGCC tuning. I believe B. F. Shelton played his version of Cora in a variant of this tuning, G-CGCE. I believe Shelton was from Clay County originally, and Kazee was from Magoffin County, both located in east Kentucky. This leads me to believe that the banjo song Darlin' Cora and the tuning G-CGCC was once probably widespread in east Kentucky. Cordially George R. Gibson

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