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This week's tune is Moonlight from the playing of Wallace Thompson of Green County, KY. I wasn't able to find any information about him. I was able to find a Ray Wallace Thompson (who often went by Wallace rather than Ray) who was born in Canmer, Hart County, KY, on 2 May 1923 and died on 3 May 1996 in Greensburg, Green County, KY. With such limited information available, I'm not certain that this is the correct Wallace Thompson. The only information I have about the fiddler Wallace Thompson is that Bruce Green recorded him in 1974 and 1988. A recording of him playing Moonlight can be found at the Digital Library of Appalachia (https://dla.acaweb.org/digital/collec.... Before playing the tune he stated: "This is an old tune. It's an old Scottish tune...I've heard some of the real old fiddlers play it, my daddy played it, Gusty Wallace, perhaps Shelly Lyle, my great grandmother used to hum it to me and sing some words to it, and I don't remember what they were now but it was an old tune then and she was old." Bruce Greene collected the tune, and though Thompson played it in an open, cross tuning, there are recordings of Greene playing it in D. It has a very different feel to me in D, but is very nice, too. In one recording of Thompson playing the tune, he is tuned to AEAE, at approximately A415, but a bit sharp. On another recording, he is tuned AEAE, but closer to A440. The title is said to refer to dances in the area that lasted all night and were referred to as "moonlights." Gusty Wallace, who Mr. Thompson mentioned in the quote above, was Robert Gustavus "Gusty" Wallace (24 November 1890--21 March 1984) of Metcalfe County, KY. He was the son of Addison Shackleford Wallace (1848-1908) and Sarah Katherine Trent (1851-1933). The Wallaces were farmers. Gusty married Ella Lydia Edwards (1893-1995) on 23 September 1914. The photo at the end of the video is Gusty Wallace, but the recording is Wallace Thompson playing Moonlight. Joining me are friends Stephen Rapp on banjo (Kent, OH) and Sean Fen on guitar (Wooster, OH). Old-Time TOTW is able to continue through your support. If you'd like to be a part of this journey, join my Patreon at: patreon.com/paulkirk I'd like to thank my latest Patrons, Kerry Laird and Denise Warren! Subscribe to my YouTube channel, and be sure to click the bell icon to receive notifications, and don't forget to join the Old-Time TOTW group on Facebook at:   / 33100.  . Old-Time TOTW will be featuring women fiddlers and musicians in March for Women's History Month, so be sure to Stay Tuned! ♫♫