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|f_track=The Haughs of Cromdale.mp3
|f_track=Elk River Blues.mp3
|f_pdf=Haughs of Cromdale.pdf
|f_pdf=Elk River Blues.pdf
|f_artwork=Sir_John_Watson_Gordon_-_James_Hogg,_1770_-_1835._Poet;_'The_Ettrick_Shepherd'_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
|f_artwork=Ernie Carpenter.jpg
|f_tune_name=Haughs of Cromdale
|f_tune_name=Elk River Blues
|f_track_title=Haughs_of_Cromdale_(The)
|f_track_title=Elk River Blues
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|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/queens-own-highlanders Queen's Own Highlanders]
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/jatek-zenekar Jatek Zenekar]
|f_notes=James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) - Portrait, 1830.
|f_notes=Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997)
|f_caption=The Grants, M'Kenzies, and M'Cays,{{break}}
|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.
Soon as Montrose, they did espy,{{break}}
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/jatek-zenekar/elk-river-blues Soundcloud]
They turn'd and fought most manfully,{{break}}
Upon the haughs of Cromdale.{{break}}
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/queens-own-highlanders/the-haughs-of-cromdale-medley Soundcloud]  
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|f_article=[[Haughs_of_Cromdale_(The) | '''Haughs of Cromdale''']]
|f_article=[[Elk River Blues | '''Elk River Blues''']]


'Haughs' are the low-lying ground along a river, in this case near Cromdale in Speyside. Fiddler-composer [[biography:Donald Grant|Donald Grant]] (c. 1760-1830's) of Elgin published an early instance of the tune giving it pride of place as the first tune in his c. 1790 collection, dedicated to Mrs. Col. Grant of Castle Grant.  
Composed by Braxton County, West Virginia, old-time fiddler Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997).


It includes the epigram:
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.  
<blockquote>
''The Grants, M'Kenzies, and M'Cays,''<br>
''Soon as Montrose, they did espy,''<br>
''They turn'd and fought most manfully,''<br>
''Upon the haughs of Cromdale.''<br>
</blockquote>


Grant the composer noted that the tune was "Old" in his day. He references the battle at the Haughs of Cromdale on April 30 and May 1, 1690, following the Battle of Killiecrankie (1689), a defeat for the Jacobites who were led by Major-General Thomas Buchan.
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.  


The government forces under Sir Thomas Livingston, commander of the garrison at Inverness, were the victors.  [[wikipedia:James Hogg|James Hogg]], the ‘Ettrick shepherd’, later collected a popular song about the defeat, published in his book '''Jacobite Relics of Scotland''' (1817).  
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.  


The song, however, is historically inaccurate and conflates two battles (Auldearn and Cromdale) separated by some 45 years<ref>Donald Grant may have been familiar with the song prior to the publication of it by Hogg, or, the epigram in Grant's volume may have been added for the 1820-21 edition.
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.  


Montrose, whom he mentions in the epigram, was James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, who was hanged in Edinburgh in 1650 after his defeat at the Battle of Carbisdale.
"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."
 
The song confuses him with a later Graham, ‘Bonnie Dundee’, who himself had died in 1689 at Killiecrankie. </ref>.  
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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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