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|f_track=Arkansas Traveler.mp3
|f_track=Elk River Blues.mp3
|f_pdf=Arkanses Traveller.pdf
|f_pdf=Elk River Blues.pdf
|f_artwork=ArkansasTraveler-MoseCase.gif
|f_artwork=Ernie Carpenter.jpg
|f_tune_name=Arkansas Traveler
|f_tune_name=Elk River Blues
|f_track_title=Arkansas_Traveler_(1)
|f_track_title=Elk River Blues
|f_section=abc
|f_section=abc
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/thepinetreestringband The Pine Tree String Band]
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/jatek-zenekar Jatek Zenekar]
|f_notes= Sheet music crediting Mose Case
|f_notes=Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997)
|f_caption=One of, if not the most famous of American fiddle tunes. E. Southern  calls Arkansas Traveller a plantation fiddle tune, while Cauthen writes that it 'had been played and sung as (an) anonymous folk tune, claimed and popularized by minstrel performers, then passed into the realm of folk music once more'
|f_caption=According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life.
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/thepinetreestringband/buffalo-gals Soundcloud]  
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/jatek-zenekar/elk-river-blues Soundcloud]
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|f_article=[[Arkansas_Traveler_(1) | '''Arkansas Traveler''']]
|f_article=[[Elk River Blues | '''Elk River Blues''']]


The music itself was in print in 1847, Rosenbaum states, and both the tune and the accompanying skit are presumed by him to have been in oral circulation at the time. Bayard (1981) thinks the whole melody may be an "American amalgam," as he was unable to locate a recognizable version in British Isles traditions.  
Composed by Braxton County, West Virginia, old-time fiddler Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997).


The second strain became a "floater," according to him, and appears in otherwise unrelated tunes, and he speculates a portion of the first part may itself have been a 'floater' that became attached to the tune.  
According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life. He had worked most of his life for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in Clarksburg, prior to retiring in 1972 to his home in Braxton County, West Virginia.  


In Francis O'Neill's '''Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody''' (1922) "Arkansas Traveler" is regarded as having a 'presumable' Irish history and three tunes are given which are proffered as in part ancestral to the American melody. O’Neill says: “Vying in popularity with ‘Turkey in the Straw’, another American favorite claims our affection.  
He was a regular visitor during his working years to his homeplace on the Elk River, and was witness to the planning and construction of the Sutton Dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the river during the 1950's and 1960's.  


Famous in song and story, its origin has baffled investigation. An exhaustive research conducted by Dr. H.C. Mercer, an official of Buck's County Historical Society (Doylestown, Pa) relating to its history and antecedents failed of its purpose.  
Unfortunately, this resulted in the flooding of his boyhood home and the surrounding area, despite the efforts of himself and neighbors to forestall the project through a lobbyist. He refused the government's initial offer for his land (they didn't offer him anything for his house), and took the case to court.  


All lines of inquiry extending to Kentucky, Arkansas, and Louisiana, ended in contradiction, and uncertainty. Furthermore, the quaint dialogue between the ‘Traveler’ and the backwoods fiddler was based on nothing more substantial than a fertile imagination.
He was able to gain a marked increase in the money he eventually was paid through this process, although he had to pay legal fees out of his pocket. He stayed in his Elk River homestead while the dam was being constructed, even though most of his neighbors had already left. Workmen blocked the roads in and out of the area, but Carpenter found alternate routes until they too were closed off.  
 
The opening paragraph of Dr. Mercer's essay published in the Century Magazine—On the track of the Arkansas Traveler—is well worth quoting:
 
<blockquote>
''Sometime about the year 1850 the American musical myth''
''known as "The Arkansas Traveler" came into vogue among''
''fiddlers. It is a quick reel tune with a backwoods story''
''talked to it while played, that caught the ear at sideshows''
''and circuses, and sounded over the trodden turf of fair ''
''grounds. Bands and foreign-bred musicians were above ''
''noticing it, but the people loved it, and kept time to it,''
''while tramps and sailors carried it across the seas to vie ''
''merrily in Irish cabins with The Wind that Shakes the Barley''
''and The Soldier's Joy.''
</blockquote>


"I was the last person out of there," he said," I went ahead then and tore the old place town and brought it up here. Part of its in this house." Of the tune, he remarked: "I was sittin' here one day, an' I had the blues. I reckon as bad as anybody could, thinkin' about my old homeplace up on the Elk River. I started sawin' on the fiddle an' that's what I came up with."
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Latest revision as of 16:17, 4 October 2024



According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life.
Elk River Blues

Played by: Jatek Zenekar
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997)

Elk River Blues

Composed by Braxton County, West Virginia, old-time fiddler Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997).

According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life. He had worked most of his life for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in Clarksburg, prior to retiring in 1972 to his home in Braxton County, West Virginia.

He was a regular visitor during his working years to his homeplace on the Elk River, and was witness to the planning and construction of the Sutton Dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the river during the 1950's and 1960's.

Unfortunately, this resulted in the flooding of his boyhood home and the surrounding area, despite the efforts of himself and neighbors to forestall the project through a lobbyist. He refused the government's initial offer for his land (they didn't offer him anything for his house), and took the case to court.

He was able to gain a marked increase in the money he eventually was paid through this process, although he had to pay legal fees out of his pocket. He stayed in his Elk River homestead while the dam was being constructed, even though most of his neighbors had already left. Workmen blocked the roads in and out of the area, but Carpenter found alternate routes until they too were closed off.

"I was the last person out of there," he said," I went ahead then and tore the old place town and brought it up here. Part of its in this house." Of the tune, he remarked: "I was sittin' here one day, an' I had the blues. I reckon as bad as anybody could, thinkin' about my old homeplace up on the Elk River. I started sawin' on the fiddle an' that's what I came up with."

...more at: Elk River Blues - full Score(s) and Annotations


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