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Thread #173000   Message #4195096
Posted By: mikechatty
07-Jan-24 - 06:03 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Ashland Tragedy
Subject: Tune Req: Ashland Tragedy
I'm curious to discover more tunes to the murder ballad "The Ashland Tragedy."

I've seen references to three or four different versions:

-Composed by Elijah Adams in Ashland, Kentucky.

-Composed by Peyton Buckner Byrne of Greenup, Greenup County, KY.

-Collected by John Harrington Cox from Mrs. Hannah Bradshaw, Matewan, Mingo County, Kentucky 1918. In Cox, Folksongs of the South (Harvard) Cambridge, 1925 (Dover reprint, 1967).

-Recorded by Herbert Halpert from the singing of Joe Hubbard, Hamiltontown, Virginia. Library of Congress AFS record 2825 A1. Laws, F25.

If anyone has any sheet or music, or better yet recordings let me know!