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Thread #174613   Message #4234084
Posted By: Lighter
10-Jan-26 - 09:36 AM
Thread Name: Fiddle Tunes in Alabama, 1900
Subject: RE: Fiddle Tunes in Alabama, 1900
Birmingham Post-Herald (Oct. 23, 1908):

“The Confederate Veterans of Alabama are to hold a reunion at Mobile on November 24, 25, and 26….The music of the fiddlers is to be confined to a list that will bring back the days before the war. We print the list:"

The list, in the same order, is identical to that of 1900 in the Marion Standard.

So the tunes were all believed to have been played in the state in the 1850s. Unfortunately, except for a few core titles like "Arkansas Traveler," there seems to be no contemporaneous evidence.