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'''BITTER CREEK'''. AKA | '''BITTER CREEK'''. AKA – "Bitter Creek Breakdown." Old-Time, Texas Style, Bluegrass; Breakdown. USA; Texas, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Brody, Phillips): ABCDD (Devil's Box): AABBCCDD (Christeson). Popularized by fiddler Tommy Jackson. R.P. Christeson says it was apparently a local Texas tune. Texas fiddler Benny Thomasson also had an influential version, played in five parts. He told Gus Garelick that he himself had metaphorically "crossed many a-bitter creek in my life," but maintained there actually was a Bitter Creek in Texas. Joel Shimberg notes the similarity with this tune and French-Canadian fiddler Henri Landry's "Carnival Reel." | ||
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Brody ('''Fiddler's Fakebook'''), 1983; p. 45. | Brody ('''Fiddler's Fakebook'''), 1983; p. 45. | ||
R.P. Christeson ('''Old Time | R.P. Christeson ('''Old Time Fiddler's Repertory, vol. 1'''), 1973; No. 130, p. 92. | ||
''The Devil's Box'', vol. 22, No. 4, Winter 1988; p. 51. | |||
Martin ('''Benny Thomasson Fiddle Transcriptions'''), 1997; No. 2. | Martin ('''Benny Thomasson Fiddle Transcriptions'''), 1997; No. 2, p. 9. | ||
Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes''') | Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 26. | ||
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County 724, Benny Thomasson | County 724, Benny Thomasson – "Country Fiddlin' from the Big State" (1970). | ||
County CD 2712, Art Stamper | County CD 2712, Art Stamper – "The Lost Fiddler" (c. 1982). | ||
County 3525, Oscar & Doc Harper (et al) | County 3525, Oscar & Doc Harper (et al) – "Dallas Bound: Old-Time Texas String Bands, vol. 2" (the four-part version of the tune). | ||
MCA 162, Tommy Jackson | MCA 162, Tommy Jackson – "Square Dances Without Calls." | ||
Rounder 0004, Clark Kessinger | Rounder 0004, Clark Kessinger – "Old Time Music." | ||
Voyager Records, Benny Thomasson | Voyager Records, Benny Thomasson – "Say Old Man Can You Play the Fiddle?" | ||
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Revision as of 05:30, 4 February 2017
BITTER CREEK. AKA – "Bitter Creek Breakdown." Old-Time, Texas Style, Bluegrass; Breakdown. USA; Texas, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Brody, Phillips): ABCDD (Devil's Box): AABBCCDD (Christeson). Popularized by fiddler Tommy Jackson. R.P. Christeson says it was apparently a local Texas tune. Texas fiddler Benny Thomasson also had an influential version, played in five parts. He told Gus Garelick that he himself had metaphorically "crossed many a-bitter creek in my life," but maintained there actually was a Bitter Creek in Texas. Joel Shimberg notes the similarity with this tune and French-Canadian fiddler Henri Landry's "Carnival Reel."
Sources for notated versions:
Red Williams (Dallas, Texas) [Christeson]; Benny Thomasson (Texas) [Brody]; Howdy Forrester via John Hartford [Devil's Box]; Tommy Jackson [Phillips].
Printed sources:
Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 45.
R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddler's Repertory, vol. 1), 1973; No. 130, p. 92.
The Devil's Box, vol. 22, No. 4, Winter 1988; p. 51.
Martin (Benny Thomasson Fiddle Transcriptions), 1997; No. 2, p. 9.
Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 26.
Recorded sources:
County 724, Benny Thomasson – "Country Fiddlin' from the Big State" (1970).
County CD 2712, Art Stamper – "The Lost Fiddler" (c. 1982).
County 3525, Oscar & Doc Harper (et al) – "Dallas Bound: Old-Time Texas String Bands, vol. 2" (the four-part version of the tune).
MCA 162, Tommy Jackson – "Square Dances Without Calls."
Rounder 0004, Clark Kessinger – "Old Time Music."
Voyager Records, Benny Thomasson – "Say Old Man Can You Play the Fiddle?"
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