Annotation:Hickman Rag (The)

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 HICKMAN'S RAG. Old-Time, Country Rag. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The tune was released under fiddler Charlie Bowman's name, although it was the Hill Billies amalgam that recorded the tune in 1926. Bowman's fiddling is outstanding on the record.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources: County 773, John Ashby (1915-1979, northern Virginia) and the Free State Ramblers - "Fiddling by the Hearth" (1979). Document 8039, "The Hill Billies/Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters: Compoete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, vol. 1" (reissue).  See also listing at: Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources

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