Annotation:Can You Dance a Tobacco Hill?

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 CAN YOU DANCE A TOBACCO HILL. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. D Major. Standard or ADae tuning (fiddle). AABB. From the playing of Owen 'Snake' Chapman. A possibly related, although distanced, tune is "Charlie MacLean's Strathspey," from the playing of fiddler Joe Peter MacLean (Rounder 7060, "Back of Boisdale").  Source for notated version: Owen "Snake Chapman (Canada, Pike County, Ky., 1995), who learned the tune from his father, G.W. Chapman [Titon].  Printed sources: Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 22, p. 57.   Recorded sources: County 2714, Brad Leftwich - "Say Old Man" (1996). McDirlam Greene Productions, Bruce Greene & Hilary Dirlam - "Fiddler's Dozen" (1985). Rounder 0378, Owen "Snake" Chapman - "Up in Chapman's Hollow" (1996).

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