Crazy Creek

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Also known as
Composer/Core Source	Biography:Tommy Jackson
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Bluegrass
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Mixolydian
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:David Brody
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Fiddler's Fakebook
Tune and/or Page number	p. 77
Year of publication/Date of MS	1983
Artist	Biography:Dillards (The) with Byron Berline
Title of recording	Pickin' and Fiddlin'
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Elektra EKS 7285
Year recorded
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CRAZY CREEK. Bluegrass, Breakdown. USA. A Mixolydian/Minor ('A' part) & C Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Brody, Phillips): AA'B (Silberberg). Composed and originally recorded by Tommy Jackson (d. 1979), who was heavily influenced by the playing of his close friend, Texas fiddler Bob Wills. Musicologist Charles Wolfe says Jackson became "the most heard, and the most imitated, fiddler of his generation", largely because of a series of recordings of square dances without calls, given wide distribution among popular commercial square dance circles. Later Jackson became a much-sought-after session man and producer in Nashville, and was connected with the Grand Old Opry. Later, the Dillards with fiddler Byron Berline made an influential recording of the tune.

Sources for notated versions: Delaware Water Gap [Brody]; Byron Berline [Phillips, Silberberg]; Ken Kosek [Phillips].

Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 77. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; pp. 59 & 60 (two versions). Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 28.

Recorded sources: Biograph RC6006, Bottle Hill- "A Rumor in Their Own Time." Elektra EKS 7285, The Dillards with Byron Berline- "Pickin' and Fiddlin." Heritage XXXIII, The Backwoods Band - "Visits" (1981). Kicking Mule 205, Delaware Water Gap- "From the Rivers of Babylon to the Land of Jazz" (1979. Learned from Byron Berline and the Dillards' recording). Rounder 0067, Jack Tottle- "Back Road Mandolin." Rounder 0084, Bill Keith- "Something Bluegrass." Rounder 7002, Graham Townsend- "Le Violin/ The Fiddle."

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