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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Jasper Robertson''', singer, Burnsville, [[North Carolina]].<br />
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[[Cecil Sharp]] collected four songs from Jasper Robertson in September 1918: [[When Adam was created]], [[Crucifixion, The|The Crucifixion]], [[Mouldering Vine, The|The Mouldering Vine]] and a song pertaining to the American civil war, [[Hick's Farewell]]. <br />
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"He is about 65 years of age, is a preacher, and makes his living by riding through the mountains on horseback and peddling a patent nerve-medicine 'compounded of 17 herbs'. He sings no love songs but incidentally has a large stock of these moralising, didactic religious songs, which must have been prevalent sometime in the 18th and 19th centuries I imagine."<br />
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Note in Cecil Sharp's MSS tune book, 29.9.18 <br />
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== References ==<br />
[http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/sharp.htm Mike Yates, ''Cecil Sharp in America: collecting in the Appalachians'', Musical Traditions Article MT047, 1999] - includes a photograph of Jasper Robertson.</div>Andyturner