Here's a fun old-time mandolin tune for #MandolinMonday. I got "Cuffey" from a live recording of the Highwoods Stringband and it's a blast on the mandolin especially. The tune may have roots in Black string band music, since the name "Cuffey" or "Cuffy" is a derivative of the Ghanian name "Kofi", and it was frequently used as a name of enslaved people during slavery. Hopefully it doesn't have any creepy minstrelsy ties??! The Tune Archive has a great history of the tune and the name. And a really fun story about Seattle fiddler Armin Barnett, who learned it from N.H. 'Nicky' Mills, of Boone's Mill, Virginia.
Here's more info about this tune and the origins of the name "Cuffey" in American history:
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