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|f_annotation='''MONROE COUNTY QUICKSTEP.''' AKA and see "[[Taylor's Quickstep (2)]]." American, Quickstep. USA, Kentucky. F Major ('A' part) & C Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'AA'BBBB. The second strain is "crooked", with an extra beat added to the fourth measure. The tune was recorded in 1929 for [[wikipedia:Gennett Records]] in Richmond, Indiana, by fiddler [[wikipedia:Leonard_Rutherford]] (1898-1951) paired with Kentucky singer John D. Foster (1896-1984). It was released on Gennett as "Taylor's Quickstep" and on Supertone as "Monroe County Quickstep." "Taylor's Quickstep" was named for Dennis Taylor, Gennett's talent scout in central Kentucky<ref>According to Rick Kennedy, "Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots" (2013), agreeing with Tony Russell, who also described Taylor as Rutherford & Foster's manager [see Russell's "John D. Foster" in '''Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost", 2007)</ref>. | |||
[[File:BurnettRutherford2.jpg{{!}}left{{!}}350px{{!}}thumb{{!}}Leonard Rutherford & Dick Burnett]] | |||
'''MONROE COUNTY QUICKSTEP.''' AKA and see "[[Taylor Quickstep (2)]]." | <br /> | ||
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The late prof. Charles Wolfe suggested that Rutherford may have learned it from one of the famous fiddling governors of Tennessee, "Alf" [[wikipedia:Alfred_A._Taylor]] (<span>1848-1931) and Bob Taylor. The name Taylor is also associated with Rutherford in 1928 recordings with Dick Burnett, Byrd Moore, and a fiddler named Jim Taylor from Norton Virginia (just over the state line from Kentucky). See also the related "[[Washington Quadrille]]" and "[[Up and Down Old Eagle Creek]]." | |||
|f_printed_sources=Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes'''), vol. 2, 1995; p. 89. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Arhoolie CD 519, McCamy's Melody Sheiks - "There's More Preety Girls than One!" (). Gennett Ge 6913, Rutherford & Foster (1929). JSP, JSP77130, "Gennett Old Time Music: Classic Country Recordings 1927-1934." Morning Star 45003, Rutherford and Foster - "Wink the Other Eye: Old Time Fiddle Band Music from Kentucky" (1980. Originally recorded for Gennett in 1929). Rounder 1004, "Ramblin' Reckless Hobo: the Songs of Dick Burnett and Leonard Rutherford." | |||
' | |f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/t02.htm#Tayqu]<br /> | ||
<br> | See transcription at Dr. Fiddle (Austin Rogers) [http://drfiddle.com/show_tune.php?id=258]<br /> | ||
<br | Hear Rutherford & Foster's recording at Slippery Hill [http://slippery-hill.com/f/TaylorQuickstep.mp3] | ||
|f_tune_annotation_title=https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Monroe_County_Quickstep > | |||
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See transcription at Dr. Fiddle (Austin Rogers) [http://drfiddle.com/show_tune.php?id=258]<br> | |||
Hear Rutherford & Foster's recording at Slippery Hill [http://slippery-hill.com/f/TaylorQuickstep.mp3] | |||
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MONROE COUNTY QUICKSTEP. AKA and see "Taylor's Quickstep (2)." American, Quickstep. USA, Kentucky. F Major ('A' part) & C Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'AA'BBBB. The second strain is "crooked", with an extra beat added to the fourth measure. The tune was recorded in 1929 for wikipedia:Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana, by fiddler wikipedia:Leonard_Rutherford (1898-1951) paired with Kentucky singer John D. Foster (1896-1984). It was released on Gennett as "Taylor's Quickstep" and on Supertone as "Monroe County Quickstep." "Taylor's Quickstep" was named for Dennis Taylor, Gennett's talent scout in central Kentucky[1].
The late prof. Charles Wolfe suggested that Rutherford may have learned it from one of the famous fiddling governors of Tennessee, "Alf" wikipedia:Alfred_A._Taylor (1848-1931) and Bob Taylor. The name Taylor is also associated with Rutherford in 1928 recordings with Dick Burnett, Byrd Moore, and a fiddler named Jim Taylor from Norton Virginia (just over the state line from Kentucky). See also the related "Washington Quadrille" and "Up and Down Old Eagle Creek."
- ↑ According to Rick Kennedy, "Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots" (2013), agreeing with Tony Russell, who also described Taylor as Rutherford & Foster's manager [see Russell's "John D. Foster" in Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost", 2007)