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MUD FENCE. AKA and see "Drunken Billy Goat," "Rocky Mountain Goat." American, Reel (cut time). USA, Kentucky. D Major. Standard or ADae tuning (fiddle). AABB'. "Mud Fence" was in the repertoire of Salyersville, Magoffin County, Kentucky, fiddler William H. Stepp, who was recorded for the Library of Congress in 1937 by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax. It is a member of the tune family that includes "Damon's Window/Damon's Winder," "Devil in Georgia (2) (The)," "Grand Hornpipe (1)," "Railroading Through the Rocky Mountains," "Ride the Goat Over the Mountains," "Rocky Mountain Goat," and "Swiss Chalet." Fiddler J.P. Fraley (1924-2011), of Denton, northeast Kentucky, some fifty miles north of Salyersville, had a distanced by cognate version of Stepp's tune.

Source for notated version: J.P. Fraley (1924-2011, Denton, northeast Kentucky) [Philllips].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 159.

Recorded sources: Library of Congress AFS 01600 B02, William H. Stepp (1937). Rounder 0037, J.P. & Annadeene Fraley - "Wild Rose of the Mountain" (1973). Yazoo 2013, William Stepp & Walter Williams - "The Music of Kentucky, vol. 1."

See also listing at:
Hear fiddler William H. "Bill" Stepp and banjo player Walter Williams at youtube.com [1] and Slippery Hill [2]