Annotation:Devil in the Haystack

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 DEVIL IN THE HAYSTACK. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Indiana, Illinois. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. Southern Illinois fiddler Gary Harrison does a version of the tune learned from Harvey "Pappy" Taylor of Effingham, Ill.  Source for notated version: Bruce and Steve Green [Phillips].  Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 69.  Recorded sources: Davis Unlimited DU 33024, Gary Harrison and the Indian Creek Delta Boys (1976). Marimac 9054, The Ill-Mo Boys - "Fine as Frog Hair" (1995). See also listing at Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index.

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