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Angeline the Baker
Old-Time; Song, Breakdown based on the title “Angelina Baker” by Stephen Foster. Virginia.
ARTIST: Angeline the Baker by Uncle Eck Dunford was recorded by Ralph Peer because Uncle Eck was in Ernest Stoneman's group of musicians.
MP3: Listen to: "Angeline The Baker" by Uncle Eck Dunford
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: 1850;
RECORDING INFO: Bay 727, "Kenny Hall and the Sweet Mills String Band." Beet 7003, "Wretched Refuse." County 201, J.W. Spangler (Va.) - "The Old Virginia Fiddlers." Rounder 0400, "Pickin' Around the Cookstove." Spudchucker Productions, Bert Edwards (N.C.) - "Bert's Bombaree" (appears as "Rocky Road"). Rounder C-11565, Stuart Duncan - "Rounder Fiddle" (1990). Tennvale 002, Roaring Fork Ramblers- "Galax 73."Austen, Seth. Appalachian Fiddle Tunes for Finger Style Guitar, Kicking Mule KM 174, LP (1982), cut# 4 (Angelina Baker). Deseret String Band. Utah Trail, Okehdokee --, LP (197?), cut# 5. Edmonds, Norman. Train on the Island, Davis Unlimited DU 33002, LP (197?), cut# 13. George, Franklin/Frank. Traditional Music for Banjo, Fiddle & Bagpipes, County C-2703, Cas (1992), cut#A.04 (Angeline). George, Franklin/Frank. Traditional Music for Banjo, Fiddle and Bagpipes, Kanawha 307, LP (1967), cut#A.03. Hall, Kenny; and the Sweets Mill String Band. Kenny Hall and the Sweets Mill String Band, Bay TPH-727, LP (1973), cut#A.01. Kretzner, Leo; and Jay Leibovitz. Pigtown Fling, Green Linnet SIF 1019, LP (1979), cut#B.06. New Golden Ring. Five Days Singing - Vol. II, Folk Legacy FSI-042, LP (1971), cut# 2. Pickin' Around the Cookstove. Pickin' Around the Cookstove, Rounder 0040, LP (1975), cut# 7. Rain-Crow Countryside Band. Roustabout, Log Cabin 8005, LP (1977), cut#B.09b. Smith, Paul. Devil Eat the Groundhog, Rounder 0409, CD (1999), cut#19. Texas Jack & the Magic City Trio. Union Grove, The Hub of the Universe, Union Grove SS-4, LP (1970), cut# 14
OTHER NAMES: "Angeline," "Angelina Baker," "Rocky Road" (N.C.), "Coon Dog" (Va.), "Georgia Row," "Walk up Georgia Row," “Julie Ann Flan” “Einstein the Genius” ”Julie Ann Johnson (Tune)” RELATED TO: Sailing On The Ocean ; Little Nell
SOURCES: J.W. Spangler (Virginia) [Reiner & Anick]; Wretched Refuse String Band (N.Y.C.) [Brody]; Stuart Duncan [Phillips]. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 22 (2 versions). Johnson (The Kitchen Musician's Occasional: Waltz, Air and Misc.), Vol. 1, 1991; pg. 2. Krassen (Appalachian Fiddle), 1973; pg. 26-27(Angeline). Kuntz (Ragged but Right), 1987; pg. 341-342. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; pg. 15. Reiner & Anick (Old-Time Fiddling Across America), 1989; pg. 88. Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc.
NOTES: "D Major. Standard or ADAE. AABB. This old time song and tune was derived from the title of a sentimental song by Stephen Foster, called "Angelina Baker," whose lyrics tell about a slave who is parted from her lover when sold. Foster's original song can be heard played by the Critton Hollow Stringband on their album "Sweet Home" (Yodel-Ay-Hee 002).
The bluegrass song is is related only through the title. Angeline the Baker by Uncle Eck Dunford was recorded by Ralph Peer because Uncle Eck was in Ernest Stoneman's group of musicians.
A similar tune, or an alternate title, is the Patrick County, Va., "Coon Dog." The 'revival' version commonly played today by old-time style musicians comes from fiddler J.W. 'Babe' Spangler (1882-1970), of Patrick County, Virginia." (Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc). See also the related "Little Betty Brown" and "Cousin Sally Brown."
Angeline the Baker- Uncle Eck Dunford
[Harmonica solo]
Angeline the Baker, lives in our village green;
The way I always loved her, beats all you ever seen.
Her father is miller, they call him Uncle Sam
I never will forget her, unless I take a dram.
Angeline the Baker, age is forty-three,
I bought her candy by the peck and she won't marry me.
Angeline in handsome, Angeline is tall,
They say she sprained little ankle a-dancing at the ball.
She can't do hard work because she is so stout,
She bakes biscuits everyday, and pours the coffee out.
Angeline the Baker, age of forty-three,
I bought her candy by the peck and she won't marry me.
I'll never marry no other girl no matter where I go,
I should-a married Angeline twenty years ago.
The last time I saw her was at the county fair,
Her father run me almost home and told me to stay there.
Angeline the Baker, age of forty-three,
I bought her candy by the peck and she won't marry me.
[Harmonica solo]
Angeline the Baker, age of forty-three,
I bought her candy by the peck and she won't marry me.
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