Annotation:Sacramento Mountain Rag

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SACRAMENTO MOUNTAIN RAG. AKA – “Sacramento Rag.” Old-Time, Bluegrass, Contest; Country Rag (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune was popularized by New Mexico fiddler Forest "Junior" Daughtery in the early 1970's.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Floyd Engstrom (b. Bremerton, Washington, 1918) and Gil Kiesecker [Silberberg].

Printed sources : - Silberberg (93 Fiddle Tunes I Didn’t Learn at the Tractor Tavern), 2004; p. 37.

Recorded sources: - Junior Daugherty - Oldtime fiddling & other folk music, Weiser, Idaho, 1975" (1975). Goldust LPS-158, Junior Daugherty - "Just fiddlin', volume II" (1971). Voyager VRCD360, "Gil Kiesecker: Blue Mountain Memories" (2004).

See also listing at:
Hear a field recording of Floyd Engstrom playing the tune at Voyager Records [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]



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