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PIKE COUNTY BREAKDOWN. Bluegrass, Reel and Breakdown. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle): gDGBD (banjo). The tune is credited to Rupert Jones, although it is sometimes credited to Bill Monroe or Jones & Monroe. Writers Charles Wolfe and Neil Rosenberg, in their book "In Bluegrass 1950-1955" quote Bill Monroe: "I wanted to write something and title it after something up in the eastern part of Kentucky. You remember Sweet Betsy from the Pike? I listened to that and wrote the Pike County Breakdown." Monroe sometimes seems to have taken credit for tunes that were not strictly his own compositions, although he may have had a hand in adapting and popularizing them. "Pike County Breakdown" was recorded twice in 1952 and issued on single records; once by Bill Monroe, and again, in May of that year, by Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys (Mercury Records 6396).

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Recorded sources: County 2730, Rafe Stefanini – “Glory on the Big String.” Doxy Records, "The Complete Early Recordings Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs" (2015).

See also listing at:
See Alan Munde's banjo tab [1]
Hear the tune played on mandolin/guitar by Jim and Bill Fuller (Buncombe County, N.C.) in 1965 at Berea Digital Archives [2]

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-'''PIKE COUNTY BREAKDOWN.''' Bluegrass, Reel and Breakdown. G Major: A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle): gDGBD (banjo). The tune is credited to Rupert Jones, although it is sometimes credited to Bill Monroe or Jones & Monroe. Writers Charles Wolfe and Neil Rosenberg, in their book "In Bluegrass 1950-1955" quote Bill Monroe: "I wanted to write something and title it after something up in the eastern part of Kentucky. You remember Sweet Betsy from the Pike? I listened to that and wrote the Pike County Breakdown." Monroe sometimes seems to have taken credit for tunes that were not strictly his own compositions, although he may have had a hand in adapting and popularizing them. "Pike County Breakdown" was recorded twice in 1952 and issued on single records; once by Bill Monroe, and again, in May of that year, by Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys (Mercury Records 6396).
+'''PIKE COUNTY BREAKDOWN.''' Bluegrass, Reel and Breakdown. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle): gDGBD (banjo). The tune is credited to Rupert Jones, although it is sometimes credited to Bill Monroe or Jones & Monroe. Writers Charles Wolfe and Neil Rosenberg, in their book "In Bluegrass 1950-1955" quote Bill Monroe: "I wanted to write something and title it after something up in the eastern part of Kentucky. You remember Sweet Betsy from the Pike? I listened to that and wrote the Pike County Breakdown." Monroe sometimes seems to have taken credit for tunes that were not strictly his own compositions, although he may have had a hand in adapting and popularizing them. "Pike County Breakdown" was recorded twice in 1952 and issued on single records; once by Bill Monroe, and again, in May of that year, by Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys (Mercury Records 6396).
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-''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>County 2730, Rafe Stefanini – “Glory on the Big String.”</font>
+''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>County 2730, Rafe Stefanini – “Glory on the Big String.” Doxy Records, "The Complete Early Recordings Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs" (2015).</font>
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+See also listing at:<br>
+See Alan Munde's banjo tab [http://www.markwardle.net/banjo_workshop/tab/pike_county_breakdown_%281st_banj.pdf]<br>
+Hear the tune played on mandolin/guitar by Jim and Bill Fuller (Buncombe County, N.C.) in 1965 at Berea Digital Archives [http://digital.berea.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15131coll4/id/2749]<br>
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