Evening Shade

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 Theme code Index    3531 6L45L5L
 Also known as    Evening Shade Falling, Evening Shade is Falling
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Old-Time
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    G
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    2/2
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Stephen F. Davis
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Devil's Box vol. 24 No. 2
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 51
 Year of publication/Date of MS    Summer 1990
 Artist    Biography:McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith
 Title of recording    Milk 'Em in the Evenin' Blues
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    Folkways FTS-31007
 Year recorded    1968
 Media    
 Score   (1)   




X:1 T:Evening Shade M:C| L:1/8 Q:"Moderately Quick" S:Arthur Smith (1898-1971, Humphreys County, east Tennessee) D:Folkways FWe1007, "Milk 'Em in the Evening Blues" (1968) F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/evening-shade Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G G2-GA|:"*"Bd- ded4|[M:2/4]BAGA |[M:C|]B2G4GF|ECEG [Ec]B[Ec](C|[D6D6])GA| Bd3 (d^cd2)|[M:2/4]BAGA|[M:C|] [G2B2]G4 [G2B2]|"**" cBAG FGAF| [D6A6] BA| B[d3g3] [d4g4]|[M:2/4]BAGA |[M:C|]B2G4GF|ECEG cAE2|+slide+[D6D6]B,C| DDFG A2Bc|d2 [Dd]A F2] FE|DEFG AcBA|+slide+[B,6G6] [B,G]E:| D2 {_B}=B2 AGEG|D+slide+B2A +slide+B2[B,2D2]-|[B,2D2]+slide+B2 AGED|Ec2E c2(B2| c)Bcd cAGc|Ec2E c2Bc|d2ge dcBA|B G4 D2-| D2 {_B}=B2 AGEG|D+slide+B2A +slide+B2[B,2D2]-|[B,2D2]+slide+B2 AGED|Ec2E c2(B2| c)Bcd cAGc|Ec2E c2Bc|dege dcBA|G4|| P:Substitutions |"*"[B,D]G[B,D]G (_B2=B2)-|BAGA|]"**"cBAG FGA2|[F6d6]BA||


X:1 T:Evening Shade is Falling N:Transcribed by John Hartford from the playing of Arthur Smith M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel B:Stephen F. Davis - Devil's Box, vol. 24, No. 2 (p. 51) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G G/A/||B/de/ d2|B/A/G/A/ BG=GG/f/ E/C/E/G/|cE D2-| |1 DG/A/ B/d/d|+slide+d2 B/A/G/A/|BG= G3|c/B/A/G/ AB|d3:| |2 B,B,/C/ D/D/E/F/|AA/B/ cF-|FF/E/ D/E/F/G/|A/c/B/A/ G2-|[M:2/16]G|| [M:2/4]B,/C/||DB A/G/E/D/|D/BA/ B2|D/B/B/B/ A/G/E/D/|D/cE/ c>B| c/B/c/d/ c/A/G/F/|E/cE/ cB/c/|d/e/g/e/ d/c/B/A/|G3||