Annotation:Spring Creek Gal
X:1 T:Spring Creek Gal N:From the playing of fiddler Al Murphy (eastern Iowa), recorded at by John Beland at the N:Bluff County Gathering 2018 M:C| L:1/8 Q:"Moderately Quck" D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/spring-creek-gal Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:D fa2f ab-af|e2d2d2de-|fefg- fedf-|e2B2B2dB| AFDF A2F2| (E/F/E D6)|fa2f ab-af|e2d2d2de-| fefg- fedf-|e2[B2e2][B2e2]dB|AFEF A2F2|E2 D2- D2|| DE|F-EDF (E/F/E DE)|[F2A2]-[A2A2][A2A2]DE|F-EDF A2 F2|(E/F/E)D2- D2 DE| F-EDF (E/F/E DE)|[FA]-[A2A2]B [A2A2]DE|F-EDF A2F2|(E/F/E) D2- D4||
SPRING CREEK GAL. AKA - "Spring Creek." American, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Alabama fiddler James Bryan credits his influential version of the tune to Al Murphy, whom he hear playing the tune with his band in the early 1980's. However, Murphy himself remarks that he learned the tune in the late 1979's or early 1980's from mandolin player John Purk (Toledo, Iowa). In turn, Purk learned it from fiddler Charlie Truitt, from northern Missouri.