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LOGGER'S BREAKDOWN. AKA - "Logger Breakdown," "Loggerman's Breakdown." AKA and see "Corn on the Cob." New England, Canadian; Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Phillips): AA'BB' (Miskoe & Paul). See also the related Missouri Valley tune "St. Joe Hornpipe."

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Vivian Williams (Seattle) [Phillips]; transplanted French-Canadian fiddler Omer Marcoux (Concord, N.H.) who actually learned the tune in a lumber-camp in Maine from a man from Waterville, Me. [Miskoe & Paul].

Printed sources : - Messer & Doyle (Backwoods Melodies), 1949; no. 15. Miskoe & Paul (Fiddle Tunes of Omer Marcoux), 1994; p. 28. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 146.

Recorded sources : - Apex 26314 (78 RPM), Don Messer & His Islanders (1949). Apex AL 1611, Don Messer & His Islanders "4". Folkways 8826, Per's Four--"Jigs and Reels." Front Hall FHR-021, John McCutcheon - "Barefoot Boy with Boots On" (1981. Learned from North Tonawanda, N.Y., dulcimer player Paul Van Arsdale who had it from a radio broadcast of a Canadian fiddler during the 1950's). RCA Victor LCP 1001, Ned Landry and his New Brunswick Lumberjacks - "Bowing the Strings with Ned Landry."

See also listing at :
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]

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