Annotation:Horse Shoe Bend

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 HORSE SHOE BEND. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Alabama. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Horse Shoe Bend is a placename in Alabama. The tune is related to the Kentucky tunes known variously as "Soap in the Washpan" or "Hot Corn". Lee Stripling, inheritor of the Stripling family fiddling tradition, plays the tune in four parts.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources: County 401, "The Stripling Brothers". Fretless FR 160, The Double Decker String Band - "Sentimental Songs and Old Time Melodies" (1981). Vocalion 5395 (78 RPM), Stripling Brothers (Alabama) {1929}.  See also listing at: Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources

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