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SUGAR TREE STOMP. American, Reel (cut time). USA, Tenn. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Named for the tiny community of Sugar Tree, Tenn., southwest of Dickson City, Dickson County, it was composed by Arthur Smith and recorded by the Arthur Smith Trio in 1936. Bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker says (on notes to County 736): "Sugar Tree Stomp, that's from Arthur Smith. Now I'll tell you what, you know, Arthur was one of the world's greatest fiddlers, in my mind, but I didn't play it like Arthur played it. I heard a little different way of going about playing it, not that I thought I could rearrange it and make the tune better; it's just what I heard and I wanted to record it that way.”

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Kenny Baker [Phillips].

Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 138.

Recorded sources: -Bluebird B-6927, Arthur Smith Trio (1937). County 547, "Fiddlin Arthur Smith and His Dixieliners" (1978). County 773, John Ashby (1915-1979, northern Virginia) and the Free State Ramblers - “Fiddling by the Hearth.” County 2705, Kenny Baker - "Master Fiddler." Field Recorders Collective FRC 404, “Cecil Plum” (2005). Field Recorders Collective FRC 502, “Marcus Martin” (2004. Martin learned the tune from Arthur Smith's recording). OMS Records, Kenny Baker – “Spider Bit the Baby” (2002).

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-'''SUGAR TREE STOMP.''' American, Reel (cut time). USA, Tenn. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Named for the tiny community of Sugar Tree, Tenn., southwest of Dickson City, Dickson County, it was composed by Arthur Smith and recorded by the Arthur Smith Trio in 1936 (although fiddler Red Wilson credits it to his grandfather, A.W. Leford). Bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker says (on notes to County 736): "Sugar Tree Stomp, that's from Arthur Smith. Now I'll tell you what, you know, Arthur was one of the world's greatest fiddlers, in my mind, but I didn't play it like Arthur played it.  I heard a little different way of going about playing it, not that I thought I could rearrange it and make the tune better; it's just what I heard and I wanted to record it that way.”
+'''SUGAR TREE STOMP.''' American, Reel (cut time). USA, Tenn. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Named for the tiny community of Sugar Tree, Tenn., southwest of Dickson City, Dickson County, it was composed by Arthur Smith and recorded by the Arthur Smith Trio in 1936. Bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker says (on notes to County 736): "Sugar Tree Stomp, that's from Arthur Smith. Now I'll tell you what, you know, Arthur was one of the world's greatest fiddlers, in my mind, but I didn't play it like Arthur played it.  I heard a little different way of going about playing it, not that I thought I could rearrange it and make the tune better; it's just what I heard and I wanted to record it that way.”
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