Ist Movement  title: Wind and Water
A medley of Julia Mae and Elk River Blues
Julia Mae is Jenny Allinder's creation, created c. 2004 in honor of a friend’s infant granddaughter, who happens to be WV fiddler Glen Smith’s great-grandniece.
Elk River Blues is Ernie Carpenter's creation, probably conceived c. late 1950s, as the Sutton Dam was being planned and built. The impounded waters of the Elk River inundated the Carpenters’ ancestral farm.

Mvt 1: Wind and Water [JuliaMae-ElkRiver] Suite For Nelle

3rd Movement  Title:  Rain and Snow
Rachel's Own, created by Jenny Allinder to honor her niece, and Cranberry Rock, a fiddle tune that comes from the repertoire of Burl Hammons, of the Hammons Family of Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

Mvt 3: Rain And Snow [Rachel's Cranberry] Suite For Nelle

2nd Movement  Title:  Earth and Sky

A medley of Queen of the Earth, Child of the Skies, a tune associated with Edd'n Hammons of Pocahontas County, and a variant of The Blackbird, an ancient Irish air; and Twin Sisters, published as early as 1839 in Knauff's Virginia Reels, and based on the Irish hornpipe, Boys of Bluehill. This variant is particularly associated with West Virginia, according to several players of old-time music.

Mvt 2: EarthAndSky_QueenoEarthTwin Sisters

This track, an adaptation of a very old pipes air, commemorates the life of the one and only Emy Phelps, 9/27/1955 – 6/22/2020. She is missed. She is loved.

Queen Of The Earth, Child Of The Skies

In this 2nd of 3 Volumes, renowned fiddle player Darol Anger presents his Blues and Jazz-oriented compositions as melody and chord charts, with some transcribed solos and short informative explanations for each tune. The book includes 16 Anger originals spanning a time period from 1979 through 2023, with tunes recorded by the David Grisman Quintet, The Montreux Band, the Anger-Marshall Duo, the Turtle Island String Quartet, Comotion, The Republic Of Strings, Psychograss, and Mr Sun.  Some relatively popular tunes from the book include Key Signator, which has recently entered the repertoire of Billy Strings. I've also collected recordings all the tunes for streaming through this site, so purchasers can hear what they're seeing!

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