Jenny Lynn

The title is also written “Jenny Lind,” the spelling of the Swedish singer’s name, and that is how a published transcription collection of Monroe’s fiddle tunes lists it. Its transcriber counts Baker’s performance among the few Monroe recordings on which the fiddle was retuned, and says Monroe taught Baker the full tune for the Uncle Pen sessions after having recorded only its B part earlier, as the closing passage of his “Uncle Pen.”

The title turns up earlier on other records. On 15 January 1961 the Stanley Brothers recorded a piece called “Jenny Lynn” at King Studio in Cincinnati, with Art Stamper on fiddle; it is credited to Ralph and Carter Stanley.