¹ Among the 1940s field recordings, only Martin's performances of “Cotton-Eyed Joe” and “Sugar in the Gourd” had been issued commercially, on the 1971 American Fiddle Tunes LP edited by Alan Jabbour for the Library of Congress. In 2004 Peter Hoover released a CD on the Field Recorders’ Collective label of recordings he made of Marcus Martin in the 1960s.

² A performance of the familiar “Sally Goodin” is also included on the CD, as track 15.

³ Titon, Jeff Todd, Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 14Google Scholar.

⁴ Martin also tended to play tunes in lower keys. GDGD and GDGB tunings, for example, are much more commonly configured a step higher, in the key of A.

⁵ Thus, the actual tuning Martin uses here is FCFC, not GDGD as the liner notes indicate.