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Posted by hayesdt, written by Matt Jeremiah Carpenter
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Size: 3,891kb, uploaded 8/8/2014 12:39:00 PM
Genre: Old-Time / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
One of my favorite Old Time fiddle tunes, this is a multitrack recording with me playing Fiddle, Banjo, Hammered Dulcimer, Guitar, and Bass, though you'll probably need either decent speakers or headphones/earbuds to hear the Bass (actually a Michael Allen-built Marimbula). Guitar and Bass join in beginning with the second verse. A bit about the history of this version of the tune as played by Ernie Carpenter from the Fiddler's Companion: SHELVIN ROCK [2]. AKA - “Shelby Rock.” Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA; West Virginia, Virginia. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning. ABB'. The melody is known as a "West Virginia old‑time fiddle classic." Ernie Carpenter claimed the tune was composed by his great‑grandfather Matt Jeremiah Carpenter, who is supposed to have written the tune in the late 18th century to commemorate his son Solomon's birthplace, an overhanging or "shelving" rock near the site of what became the Carpenter home in Webster County, West Virginia.
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