Annotation:Campbell's Farewell to Red Gap

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 CAMPBELL'S FAREWELL TO RED GAP. AKA and see "Steph's Reel," "Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle." Old-Time, Breakdown. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCC. The tune is a setting of the Scottish march "Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle." Folkways FA2402, Bruce Hutton- "Old Time Music, Its All Around."  Source for notated version: Kenny Hall (Califorinia) [Brody].  Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 61.  Recorded sources: June Appal 014, John McCutecheon- "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" (1977. Learned from Kenny Hall via Greg Jowaises). Philo 1008, "Kenny Hall" (1974). Rounder Select 82161-0476-2, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley: Hammered Dulcimer Music" (reissues, orig. released 1977). See also listing at Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index.

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