In my message of earlier today, I offered links to four renditions of "Sleepy
Eyed Joe", including this one from Foghorn's out-of-print _Weiser Sunrise_
album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2RI8FlwvQg
Foghorn Stringband
~134 BPM
Thanks to Meg Dedolph for an off-list message pointing out that the aforesaid
video has been diasbled since I first posted a link to it in 2015 and for
calling my attention to a video on the Westport Folk & Bluegrass Festival's
channel of a live performance by Foghorn at Matt Molloy's Pub, Bridge Street,
Westport, County Mayo, Ireland in 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd_q8vaQuI0
Foghorn Stringband
~137-138 BPM
I've also found that the version from the _Weiser Sunrise_ album is currently
available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd_q8vaQuI0
The title and description of the Westport video attribute the tune to Norman
Blake, but as I said in the postscript to my earlier message, notes
accompanying one of Blake's CDs attribute the tune to one Ellis Hall. I
haven't heard Hall's 1952 78 RPM recording of the tune, so I can't say how it
compares to any of the others I've mentioned. Using Google Advanced Book
Search, I found a 1952 copyright catalog with a listing attributing "Sleepy
Eyed Joe" to Ellis John Hall. Whether Hall was claiming authorship of the tune
itself or just of his performance/arrangement is more than I can say for
certain, but I didn't find any older references to "Sleepy Eyed Joe" as a tune
name.
--Jim
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