Sandy River Belle

This G major tune comes from Patrick County, Virginia, around Meadows of Dan, where it is played so often that folklorists Tom Carter and Blanton Owen called it the county's old-time anthem. Dad Blackard's Moonshiners, a family band with fiddlers Jesse and Pyrhis Shelor, recorded it for Ralph Peer at Bristol in August 1927.

Clarice Blackard Shelor said the band had always played it as an instrumental, until the Victor engineers asked for words and Dad Blackard made some up on the spot. An unrelated tune in D also goes by the name.