Old-Time TOTW

Old-Time TOTW #204 is Sailing Over England from the playing of Fitzhugh Lee Triplett (6 July 1897--24 January 1981) of Clay, Clay County, WV. He was the son of William Hedgeman Triplett (1845-1906) and Elizabeth "Bettie" Louisa Mullins (1859-1932). He married Lula Jane Rose (1897-1952) on 28 April 1917.

I was not able to find much about Lee Triplett. He came from a large family and had at least eight siblings and eleven children of his own. He and his family were farmers, and he is listed in the 1940 Census as being a laborer with the WPA.

Sailing Over England is a very melodic tune which Traditional Tune Archive mentions may have been derived from a ballad air. The Digital Library of Appalachia notes that Lee Triplett was a "mainstay at the West Virginia State Folk Festival in Glenville, WV, where he kept up a friendly rivaly with fiddler French Carpenter."

The recording of Lee Triplett playing the tune at the end of this video is from Larry Warren's Slippery-Hill. Be sure to check his site out: https://www.slippery-hill.com/content...

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Joining me in our recording is Stephen Rapp on banjo (Kent, OH), and Jeanie Thieken on guitar (Hocking Hills, OH).

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