Cricket on the Hearth

 CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Old Time, Bluegrass; Breakdown. USA; Arkansas, east Tennessee. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A member of a large tune family that includes "Damon's Winder," "The Devil in Georgia [2]," "Drunken Billy Goat," "Grand Hornpipe [1]," "Marmaduke's Hornpipe," "Mud Fence," "Ride the Goat Over the Mountains," "Rocky Mountain Goat," and "Swiss Chalet." The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by folklorist/musicologist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. See note for "Marmaduke's Hornpipe." Sources for notated versions: Kenny Baker [Brody, Phillips]; Floyd Engstrom [Silberberg]. Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 78. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 60. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 29. Recorded sources: American Heritage 510, Jay Belt- "Fiddlin' Jay Belt." County 719, Kenny Baker - "Portrait of a Bluegrass Fiddler" (learned from Kentucky fiddler Art Wooten from a late 1940's radio broadcast). County 2705, Kenny Baker - "Master Fiddler." Heritage XXIV, Smokey Valley Boys - "Music of North Carolina" (Brandywine, 1978). June Appal 014, John McCutcheon- "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" (1977. Learned from Byard Ray). 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: An Index to Recorded Sources. (((♫))) Charlie Acuff (b. 1919, east Tennessee) "Cricket on a Hearth" (learned from his grandfather, Charlie Boyd Acuff)

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