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|f_annotation=[[File:douglas.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Wilson Douglas]]'''BRUSHY RUN'''. American, Reel (cut time). USA, West Virginia. G Major. Standard (French Carpenter, Art Stamper) or DGdg (Harvey Sampson) tunings (fiddle). AB. Clay County, West Virginia, fiddler [[biography:Wilson Douglas]] identifies the locale of this tune as "over beyond Widen. It was just a big holler, with so much underbrush--some old fiddler was bacheloring there and he just composed this and he called it the 'Brushy Run.' Just a bushy ravine, so to speak. (French) Carpenter (1899-1965) could really play that. Where these young fiddlers get lost is in the bowing over the high part. You do it with the bow. You don't do it with the notes at all!" (interview with Nancy McClellan). Douglas also said it was a Carpenter family tune composed some time around the time of the American Civil War. According to Kerry Blech, Ward Jarvis (W.Va., Ohio) learned the tune from eastern Kentucky fiddler Ed Haley, and that Jarvis played it in standard tuning. Douglas's and Ed Haley's versions are also nearly identical.
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Hear Wilson Douglas's 1973 field recording by Kevin Delaney at Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/971]<br>
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Hear Ed Haley's home recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/brushy-run-0 ]<br>
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'''BRUSHY RUN'''. American, Reel (cut time). USA, West Virginia. G Major. Standard (French Carpenter, Art Stamper) or DGdg (Harvey Sampson) tunings (fiddle). AB. Clay County, West Virginia, fiddler Wilson Douglas identifies the locale of this tune as "over beyond Widen. It was just a big holler, with so much underbrush--some old fiddler was bacheloring there and he just composed this and he called it the 'Brushy Run.' Just a bushy ravine, so to speak. (French) Carpenter (1899-1965) could really play that. Where these young fiddlers get lost is in the bowing over the high part. You do it with the bow. You don't do it with the notes at all!" (interview with Nancy McClellan). Douglas also said it was a Carpenter family tune composed some time around the time of the American Civil War. According to Kerry Blech, Ward Jarvis (W.Va., Ohio) learned the tune from eastern Kentucky fiddler Ed Haley, and that Jarvis played it in standard tuning.  
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<font color=red>''Source for notated version''</font>: - Danny Gardella [Phillips].  
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 39.  
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<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> -Augusta Heritage Recordings AHR-004C, Harvey Sampson and the Big Possum String Band - "Flat Foot in the Ashes" (1986/1994. Learned by Calhoun County, W.Va., fiddler Harvey Sampson from his father). Cassette C-7625, Wilson Douglas - "Back Porch Symphony." Rounder 0047, Wilson Douglas - "The Right Hand Fork of Rush's Creek" (1975). Rounder 1131/1132, Ed Hayley - "Forked Deer, vol. 1" (1997).  </font>
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Hear French Carpenter's field recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/brushy-run]
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Wilson Douglas
BRUSHY RUN. American, Reel (cut time). USA, West Virginia. G Major. Standard (French Carpenter, Art Stamper) or DGdg (Harvey Sampson) tunings (fiddle). AB. Clay County, West Virginia, fiddler biography:Wilson Douglas identifies the locale of this tune as "over beyond Widen. It was just a big holler, with so much underbrush--some old fiddler was bacheloring there and he just composed this and he called it the 'Brushy Run.' Just a bushy ravine, so to speak. (French) Carpenter (1899-1965) could really play that. Where these young fiddlers get lost is in the bowing over the high part. You do it with the bow. You don't do it with the notes at all!" (interview with Nancy McClellan). Douglas also said it was a Carpenter family tune composed some time around the time of the American Civil War. According to Kerry Blech, Ward Jarvis (W.Va., Ohio) learned the tune from eastern Kentucky fiddler Ed Haley, and that Jarvis played it in standard tuning. Douglas's and Ed Haley's versions are also nearly identical.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Danny Gardella [Phillips].

Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 39.

Recorded sources : - Augusta Heritage Recordings AHR-004C, Harvey Sampson and the Big Possum String Band - "Flat Foot in the Ashes" (1986/1994. Learned by Calhoun County, W.Va., fiddler Harvey Sampson from his father). Cassette C-7625, Wilson Douglas - "Back Porch Symphony." Rounder 0047, Wilson Douglas - "The Right Hand Fork of Rush's Creek" (1975). Rounder 1131/1132, Ed Hayley - "Forked Deer, vol. 1" (1997). VT-2003, Rhys Jones, Jeff Miller, Jim Nelson - "Mississippi Square Dance, vol. 2" (2004).

See also listing at :
Hear French Carpenter's field recording at Slippery Hill [1]
Hear Wilson Douglas's 1973 field recording by Kevin Delaney at Berea Sound Archives [2]
Hear Ed Haley's home recording at Slippery Hill [3]

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