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|f_tune_title=Bucking Mule
|f_tune_title=Bucking Mule (1)
|f_aka=Cumberland Gap on a Buckin' Mule
|f_aka=Buckin' Mule, Cumberland Gap on a Bucking Mule
|f_country=United States
|f_country=United States
|f_genre=Old-Time
|f_genre=Old-Time
|f_rhythm=Reel (single/double)
|f_rhythm=Reel (single/double)
|f_time_signature=2/4
|f_time_signature=2/4
|f_key=D
|f_key=G
|f_accidental=2 sharps
|f_accidental=1 sharp
|f_mode=Ionian (Major)
|f_mode=Ionian (Major)
|f_history=USA(Upland South), <b>USA</b>/Piedmont, <b>USA</b>/Southeast
|f_history=USA(Upland South), USA(Piedmont), USA(Southeast)
|f_structure=AABB
|f_structure=AABB
|f_book_title=Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife
|f_book_title=A Study in Fiddle Tunes from Western North Carolina
|f_collector=Samuel Bayard,
|f_collector=David Parker Bennett
|f_year=1981
|f_year=1940
|f_page=No. 339, p. 325
|f_page=p. 62
|f_theme_code_index=3H1H 55 57 2H4H
|f_theme_code_index=3333 326L1
|f_score=1
|f_player=J. Dedrick Harris
|f_player=J. Dedrick Harris
|f_label=Broadway A-1963 (78 RPM)
|f_label=Broadway A-1963 (78 RPM)
|f_recording_date=1924
|f_recording_date=1924
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'''BUCKING MULE'''. See "Cumberland Gap on a Buckin' Mule." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; north Georgia, western N.C., eastern Tenn., Ky., southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard tuning. AA'BB. The favorite contest tune of north Georgia fiddler A.A. Gray, who recalled in a 1934 interview:
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''the bridge that makes the fiddle bray like a mule. I won so many''
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''prizes that the other follows got to calling my 'Mule' Gray.'' ('''Old Time Music''', No. 41, Spring 1985)
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Georgia duo Gid Tanner and Riley Puckett's version for Columbia Records in 1924 was the first string band record ever released. Further north, the piece was reportedly popular with Tennessee fiddlers. It was in the repertoire of Monticello, Ky., fiddler Dick Burnett and was one of two pieces he remembered getting the most applause for from audiences during his hey-day. "Bucking Mule" was also frequently played by "Natchez the Indian," a contest fiddler in the 1930's and 40's who may or may not have been a Native American; Natchez dressed in beaded buckskins and wore his hair in long braids, and when he fiddled this tune "the animation of his coiffure and the tassles on his buckskins was of greater interest than the quality of his music" (Mark Wilson & Guthrie Meade, 1976).
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''Source for notated version'': A manuscript from fifer Thomas Hoge (Greene County, Pa.) [Bayard].  
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''Printed source:'' Bayard ('''Dance to the Fiddle'''), 1981; No. 339, p. 325.
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Broadway A-1963 (78 RPM), 1924, J. Dedrick Harris (Harris was a legendary fiddler from Tennessee who played regularly with Bob Taylor when he ran for Governer of the state in the late 1800's. Harris moved to Western N.C. in the 1920's and influenced a generation of fiddlers there: Manco Sneed, Bill Hensley, Osey Helton, Marcus Martin. This was one of two songs only he recorded [see "Whip the Devil Round the Stump"]). Columbia 110-D (78 RPM), 1924, Gid Tanner and Riley Puckett. Rounder Records, Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers (1934) - "The Kickapoo Medecine Show" (appears as "Cumberland Gap on a Buckin' Mule"). Vocalion 5432 (78 RPM), A.A. Gray (part of "A Fiddler's Tryout in Georgia").


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L:1/8
R:Reel
Q:Fast
N:Harris plays the first strain five or six times before moving
N:on to the second strain.
N:Harris was from Flag Pond, Tennessee, but lived around Asheville
N:and Andrews, N.C., for part of his life.
D:Broadway BWY A-1963, D.J. Harris (1924)
F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/bucking-mule
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
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T:Bucking Mule (The)
T:Buckin' Mule [1]
N:Transcribed by David P. Bennett from the playing of western
N:N.C. fiddler Bill Hensley, 1939.
M:2/4
M:2/4
L:1/8
L:1/8
S:Thomas Hoge manuscripts, a collection of fife music from
R:Reel
S:southwestern Pennsylvania
B:David Parker Bennett, "A Study in Fiddle Tunes
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B:from Western North Carolina".  Dissertation, UNC,
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 Theme code Index    3333 326L1
 Also known as    Buckin' Mule, Cumberland Gap on a Bucking Mule
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Old-Time
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    G
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    2/4
 History    USA(Upland South), USA(Piedmont), USA(Southeast)
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:David Parker Bennett
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:A Study in Fiddle Tunes from Western North Carolina
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 62
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1940
 Artist    Biography:J. Dedrick Harris
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    Broadway A-1963 (78 RPM)
 Year recorded    1924
 Media    
 Score   (1)   




X:1 T:Bucking Mule [1] S:J. Dedrick Harris (c. 1868- Asheville, N.C.) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:Fast N:Harris plays the first strain five or six times before moving N:on to the second strain. N:Harris was from Flag Pond, Tennessee, but lived around Asheville N:and Andrews, N.C., for part of his life. D:Broadway BWY A-1963, D.J. Harris (1924) F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/bucking-mule Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G +slide+[G2B2][GB]A [G2B2]BA|BGAG EGGA|+slide+[G2B2][GB]A [G2B2]Bd|edBG AG2[G_B]-| [G2B2][GB]A [G2B2]BA|BGAG EGGA|+slide+[G2B2][GB]A [G2B2]Bd|edBG AG3|| g3g-g3a|gedc Bdd2|g4- gaba|gedB AG3| g3g- g2ba|bagd eg3|g2ed d2 BA|B2AG EG3| g3g- g2a|gedc Bd3|g4- gaba|gedB AG3| g6a2|bagd eg2a|g2 ed d2 BA|BGAG EG3||


X:1 T:Buckin' Mule [1] N:Transcribed by David P. Bennett from the playing of western N:N.C. fiddler Bill Hensley, 1939. M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel B:David Parker Bennett, "A Study in Fiddle Tunes B:from Western North Carolina". Dissertation, UNC, B:Chapel Hill; 1940, p. 62. B:https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1789&context=msu_theses_dissertations Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G BG B/G/A/G/|E/GG/ G[G/B/]E/|Gd e/d/B/G/|A/GA/ GB/A/| BB/A/ B/G/A/G/|E/GG/ GB/G/|BB/d/ e/d/B/G/|A<G g>a| Sg/e/g- g/d/e/d/|B/de/ g>a|bg- g/d/e/d/|B<G g>a| ba/b/- b/g/a/g/|e<d B>A|BA/B/- B/D/E/D/|E<G g>a| ge/g/- g/d/e/d/|B<d g>e|g/a/b/g/- g/d/e/d/|B<G g>a| ba/b/- b/g/a/g/|e<d B>A|BA/B/- B/D/A/G/|E<G B>A| BA/B/- B/G/A/G/|E/GB/- B/A/B/d/ e/d/B/G/|A/GB/- BA/B/-| BA/B/- B/G/A/G/|E/GB/- B/A/B/-|B/A/B/d/ e/d/B/G/|A/GB/- BA/B/-| BA/B/- B/G/A/G/|E/GB/- BA/B/-|B/A/B/d/ e/d/B/G/|A<G g>a!D.S.!||