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SHULL CREEK. AKA - "Shoal Creek Breakdown." American, Reel. Northwest Missouri fiddler Casey Jones’ (d. 1967) version of Canadian radio and TV fiddler Don Messer’s “Swamplake Breakdown (The),” probably gleaned from CBC broadcasts that reacher the American plains region from Canada.

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Recorded sources: -MSOTFA 102, Casey Jones – “Rocky Road to Jordan” (1992).



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