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Composed by Sir Alexander Don, 5th Baronet of Newton Don (1751-1815), who, in 1777 along with other local gentry, formed a Society called the Caledonian Hunt, which met twice a year. (See note for "Sir Alexander Don (1)" for more on him). The Cross Keys Hotel in Kelso (Borders region) was used as a base. A Yorkshire gentleman, Colonel Thornton, visited in 1786 and gave this account:

A charming scene of confusion; cooks, ladies' servants, waitresses all running against each other, being the time of Kelso Races. The company is composed of gentlemen of the Turf on both sides of the Tweed with families and friends and also members of the Caledonian Hunt. Foxhounds and harriers hunt alternately in the mornings. There is also a concert and races and next night the gentlemen of the Hunt give a handsome ball. After the ladies retired therefrom, the gentlemen formed a party to drink their healths and when I got up at 8 they were still drinking and meant to sit till hounds went out. This meeting, I heard, is most expensive of any. An English Steward was obliged to pay 10 guineas for his room, though only there 5 nights.

The annual event of the Caledonian Hunt was the famous Caledonian Hunt Ball, an event so fashionable as to be attended by the majority of gentry of Scotland, and not a few from England. Nathaniel Gow's band performed music for the occasion for many years, until music and dance fashions changed fashion. In 1822 King George IV attended the ball and took pleasure in expressing the satisfaction he derived from Gow's music. When Gow presented his bill to the sponsors of the event, he added, "...my own trouble at pleasure, or nothing, as his majesty's approbation more than recompensed me." At the end of his life, when Gow became infirm and financially destitute from the failure of his publishing business, the noblemen and gentlemen of the Hunt voted Gow 50 pounds per annum for the remainder of his years in remembrance of his services to them.

O'Neill (1922) remarks: "This favorite first appeared in Ross' Choice Collection of Scots Reels Country Dances and Strathspeys, Edinburgh, 1780." Donn's compsition appears in the c. 1785 music mansucript collection of John Sutherland, a pastoral piper from Aberdeenshire. The pastoral pipes were a precursor to the smallpipes. The melody is attibuted in the ms. to either "Our Alex Donn" or "Sir Alex Donn". The first strain is shared with the air and country dance tune "O This is no My Ain Lassie."

THE CALEDONIAN HUNT full Score(s) and Annotations and Past Featured Tunes

The Caledonian Hutsman's Delight

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-"Carroll County Blues" was the Mississippi fiddle and guitar duo Narmour and Smith's biggest hit recording. The original melody is said to have been composed by fiddler Will Narmour (1889-1961) and was named for his home county, Carroll County, north-central Mississippi, but whether Narmour actually composed it is in dispute. Narmour, however, did record the tune with a man named Shell (Sherril) Smith, whose wife, it has been written, recalled that Narmour may have heard the tune either being whistled by a black farmer (according to David Freeman), or hummed by a black field hand (remembers Henry Young). This farmer claimed authorship and called the tune "Carroll County Blues." Narmour and Smith then "worked the tune out," presumably meaning that they arranged it for fiddle and guitar. Narmour is known to have been friendly with black bluesman Mississippi John Hurt, who lived in nearby Avalon.  It has also been maintained, ostensibly by older community members in Avalon, that Narmour's mentor, Gene Clardy, an older local fiddler, was the one who composed "Carroll County Blues." However, the story about the black farmer is also disputed, and, further, it may be that Gene Clardy neither wrote nor played the tune.
+Composed by Sir Alexander Don, 5th Baronet of Newton Don (1751-1815), who, in 1777 along with other local gentry, formed a Society called the Caledonian Hunt, which met twice a year. (See note for "[[Sir Alexander Don (1)]]" for more on him). The Cross Keys Hotel in Kelso (Borders region) was used as a base. A Yorkshire gentleman, Colonel Thornton, visited in 1786 and gave this account:[[File:hunt3.jpg|500px|thumb|right|]]
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-Gary Stanton, in his article "All Counties Have Blues: County Blues as an Emergent Genre of Fiddle Tunes in Eastern Mississippi" ('''North Carolina Folklore Journal''', vol. 28, no. 2, Nov. 1980), points out that the tune is not what one would consider to be in conventional twelve or sixteen bar blues, but was rather built on several 'riffs' (melodic statements) separated by long held notes or a contrasting musical figure. This results in a piece which has alternations of motion and repose, that Stanton contrasts with Anglo-American fiddling, which is almost constant melodic and rhythmic motion. Joseph Scott points out that:
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-''It seems to be fairly widely accepted among old time music  enthusiasts''
+''A charming scene of confusion; cooks, ladies' servants, waitresses ''
-''that Narmour and Smith's "Carroll County Blues" is not a "true blues,"''
+''all running against each other, being the time of Kelso Races. The''
-''because it does not use the "standard" 12-bar blues progression. That ''
+''company is composed of gentlemen of the Turf on both sides of the ''
-''reasoning rests on the anachronistic assumption that all "true blues" by ''
+''Tweed with families and friends and also members of the Caledonian ''
-''definition used the 12-bar approach. The famous 'standard' 12-bar approach ''
+''Hunt. Foxhounds and harriers hunt alternately in the mornings. There''
-''increasingly dominated within blues over the decades... "Carroll County Blues"''
+''is also a concert and races and next night the gentlemen of the Hunt''
-'' is based on the same basic progression, the 8-bar I-I-I-I-IV-IV-I-I, as were ''
+''give a handsome ball. After the ladies retired therefrom, the gentlemen''
-''some 'Blues' by 'black' Mississippi musicians born around the same era, such ''
+''formed a party to drink their healths and when I got up at 8 they were''
-''as "Sundown Blues by Alec Johnson, "Pretty Mama Blues" by Cannon's Jug ''
+''still drinking and meant to sit till hounds went out. This meeting, I heard,''
-''Stompers, and "Vicksburg Blues" by Scott Dunbar.''
+''is most expensive of any. An English Steward was obliged to pay 10 ''
+''guineas for his room, though only there 5 nights.''
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-In addition the tune features 'blues notes', flattened thirds and sevenths slurred into the natural note. The timing is rather odd (ten measures in the 'A' part instead of the usual eight, among other irregularities) with respect to the majority of fiddle tunes, but despite this Freeman (1975) says it has become one of the most famous fiddle tunes in the United States. He notes it was mentioned in Talking Machine World, an old trade paper, as having been one of the biggest selling records of 1929. Narmour recorded other "Carroll County Blues" tunes (see abc's below) attempting to ride the popularity of "Carroll County Blues #1" but they never achieved such widespread acclaim as the first. Due to its popularity #1  was covered by a great many fiddlers, including Kentuckian Doc Roberts (it appears that the Gennett company gave a copy of Narmour's recording to Roberts and told him to learn it for their next recording session). Subsequently, it has been found in local fiddlers' repertoires throughout the South and Mid-West. As previously mentioned, the 'A' part is irregular, though Phillips notes that Narmour sometimes omits the 2/4 time measures (in an otherwise 4/4 tune) or adds two beats to them, so that his performance can be considered inconsistent as well, a not uncommon phenomenon among traditional fiddlers who seldom play a tune the same way twice. "Carroll County Blues" also seems to be related to bluesman Furry Lewis' "Turn Your Money Green." Other than Narmour & Smith's 1929 recording, another early version was by the Doc Roberts Trio (1933). S'
+The annual event of the Caledonian Hunt was the famous Caledonian Hunt Ball, an event so fashionable as to be attended by the majority of gentry of Scotland, and not a few from England.  Nathaniel Gow's band performed music for the occasion for many years, until music and dance fashions changed fashion. In 1822 King George IV attended the ball and took pleasure in expressing the satisfaction he derived from Gow's music.  When Gow presented his bill to the sponsors of the event, he added, "...my own trouble at pleasure, or nothing, as his majesty's approbation more than recompensed me." At the end of his life, when Gow became infirm and financially destitute from the failure of his publishing business, the noblemen and gentlemen of the Hunt voted Gow 50 pounds per annum for the remainder of his years in remembrance of his services to them.
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+O'Neill (1922) remarks: "This favorite first appeared in Ross' '''Choice Collection of Scots Reels Country Dances and Strathspeys''', Edinburgh, 1780." Donn's compsition appears in the c. 1785 music mansucript collection of John Sutherland, a pastoral piper from Aberdeenshire. The pastoral pipes were a precursor to the smallpipes. The melody is attibuted in the ms. to either "Our Alex Donn" or "Sir Alex Donn". The first strain is shared with the air and country dance tune "[[O This is no My Ain Lassie]]."
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+[[File:The caledonian huntsmans delight.mp3|thumb|left|The Caledonian Hutsman's Delight]] {{break|4}}
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