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'''HICKORY LEAF'''. Old-Time, Breakdown. D Major. ADad tuning (fiddle). A Fiddlin' Arthur Smith variant of "[[Bonaparte's Retreat (1)]]." In the repertoire of Kentucky fiddler Owen "Snake" Chapman (1919-2003). A hickory leaf can be "played" by holding it tightly between the hands, parallel to the lips.   
'''HICKORY LEAF'''. American, Reel (cut time). D Major. DDad (Smith) or ADad (Chapman) tuning (fiddle). The tune is sourced to Tennessee's Fiddlin' [[biography:Arthur Smith]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlin%27_Arthur_Smith] (1898-1971). It was also in the repertoire of Kentucky fiddler [[biography:Owen Chapman]] (1919-2003), a one-time coal miner from Canada, Pike County, southwest Kentucky, who played in a bluegrass band during a brief move to Michigan to work in the auto industry in the mid-1960's. Chapman was of the opinion that the tune was Smith's reworking of "[[Bonaparte's Retreat (1)]]."
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A hickory leaf can be "played" by holding it tightly between the hands, parallel to the lips.  Sterling Kelly and Ralph Lee Smith issued a recording in 1977 called "Old Time American Harmonica, Bones and Hickory Leaf Playing."
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''Source for notated version'':  
''Source for notated version'':  
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''Printed sources'':  
''Printed sources'':   '''The Devil's Box''', vol. 24, No. 1, 1990; p. 23. <br>
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Rounder Records RNDS 418, Snake Chapman - "Walnut Gap" (1999). Folkways FA2419, Tracy Schwartz - "Look Out Here it Comes" (1975. Learned from a recording of Paul Warren, with Flatt & Scruggs).  </font>
''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Rounder Records RNDS 418, Owen "Snake" Chapman - "Walnut Gap" (1999). Folkways FA2419, Tracy Schwartz - "Look Out Here it Comes" (1975. Learned from a recorded WSM broadcast of fiddler Paul Warren, playing with Flatt & Scruggs, "which came to him directly from his association with Fiddling Arthur Smith. According to Kirk McGee the tune may be 150 years old").  </font>
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See also listing at:<br>
See also listing at:<br>
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/h05.htm#Hicle]<br>
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/h05.htm#Hicle]<br>
Hear a 1957 home recording of Arthur Smith and Earl Scruggs playing the tune on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBPr2eRqlYI]<br>
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HICKORY LEAF. American, Reel (cut time). D Major. DDad (Smith) or ADad (Chapman) tuning (fiddle). The tune is sourced to Tennessee's Fiddlin' biography:Arthur Smith [1] (1898-1971). It was also in the repertoire of Kentucky fiddler biography:Owen Chapman (1919-2003), a one-time coal miner from Canada, Pike County, southwest Kentucky, who played in a bluegrass band during a brief move to Michigan to work in the auto industry in the mid-1960's. Chapman was of the opinion that the tune was Smith's reworking of "Bonaparte's Retreat (1)."

A hickory leaf can be "played" by holding it tightly between the hands, parallel to the lips. Sterling Kelly and Ralph Lee Smith issued a recording in 1977 called "Old Time American Harmonica, Bones and Hickory Leaf Playing."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: The Devil's Box, vol. 24, No. 1, 1990; p. 23.

Recorded sources: Rounder Records RNDS 418, Owen "Snake" Chapman - "Walnut Gap" (1999). Folkways FA2419, Tracy Schwartz - "Look Out Here it Comes" (1975. Learned from a recorded WSM broadcast of fiddler Paul Warren, playing with Flatt & Scruggs, "which came to him directly from his association with Fiddling Arthur Smith. According to Kirk McGee the tune may be 150 years old").

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
Hear a 1957 home recording of Arthur Smith and Earl Scruggs playing the tune on youtube.com [3]




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