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The Last of Sizemore

Title

The Last of Sizemore

Digital Object

Performer

Strong, Luther

Date Recorded

1937-10-18

AFS Number

1537B2

AFC Collection

AFC 1937/001

AFC Catalog Record

http://lccn.loc.gov/2008700304

Genre

fiddle tune

Instrumentation

fiddle

State

Kentucky

County

Perry

Town

Hazard

Is Referenced by

Titon, Jeff Todd. Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes. University Press of Kentucky, 2001. Book and CD. (Includes general history of fiddling in Kentucky as well as biographies and tune transcriptions of several fiddlers in this collection.)

Wilgus, D.K. “The Hanged Fiddler Legend in Anglo-American Tradition.” Folklore on Two Continents: Essays in honor of Linda Degh. Edited by Nikolai Burlakoff and Carl Lindhal. Trickster Press, 1980. pp. 120-138.(Collection includes several versions of one of this story / tune motif.)

Music of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics 1927-37. Edited by Guthrie Meade and Richard Nevins. Yazoo 2013 and 2014, 1995. Set of 2 CD's.

Collection

Alan and Elizabeth Lomax Kentucky collection

Tags

fiddle, fiddle tune

Citation

“The Last of Sizemore,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed November 7, 2025, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/999.

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