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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). | '''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>Bear Family Records, Bill Monroe - "Bluegrass 1950-1958" (1990). County 2730, Rafe Stefanini – “Glory on the Big String.” Doxy Records, "The Complete Early Recordings Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs" (2015).</font> | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Bear Family Records, Bill Monroe - "Bluegrass 1950-1958" (1990). 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 also listing at:<br> | ||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/p04.htm#Pikcobr]<br> | Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/p04.htm#Pikcobr]<br> | ||
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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: Bear Family Records, Bill Monroe - "Bluegrass 1950-1958" (1990). County 2730, Rafe Stefanini – “Glory on the Big String.” Doxy Records, "The Complete Early Recordings Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs" (2015).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
See Alan Munde's banjo tab [2]
Hear the tune played on mandolin/guitar by Jim and Bill Fuller (Buncombe County, N.C.) in 1965 at Berea Digital Archives [3]