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|f_tune_title=Citaco
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|f_aka=Citigo, Citico, Down to the Wildwood to Shoot the Buffalo
|f_aka=Citigo, Citico, Down to the Wildwood to Shoot the Buffalo
|f_composer=Marcus Martin
|f_composer=Marcus Martin, Lowe Stokes
|f_country=United States
|f_country=United States
|f_genre=Old-Time
|f_genre=Old-Time

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 Theme code Index    5516L 5511
 Also known as    Citigo, Citico, Down to the Wildwood to Shoot the Buffalo
 Composer/Core Source    Biography:Marcus Martin, Biography:Lowe Stokes
 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)
 Structure    AA'BB'
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Clare Milliner & Walt Koken
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 113
 Year of publication/Date of MS    2011
 Artist    Biography:Swamp Rooters (The --Lowe Stokes & Bert Layne)
 Title of recording    Citaco
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    Brunswick 566
 Year recorded    1930
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 Score   ()   


CITACO. AKA - "Citigo," "Citico." AKA and see "Down to the Wildwood to Shoot the Buffalo." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; north Georgia, Tennessee. GDad or AEae tuning (fiddle). Citaco is an area north and east of the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The melody is known as a north Georgia tune. It was, for example, in the repertoire of north Georgia fiddler Lowe Stokes (1898-1983, who played with the Skillet Lickers as well as other bands) who learned it under the title "Down to the Wildwood to Shoot the Buffalo." However, when Stokes recorded the tune in 1930 on his Brunswick Records 78 with his band Lowe Stokes' Swamp Rooters, it was titled "Citaco" (played in GDad tuning). Some versions sound similar to versions of "Cotton Eyed Joe," as, for example, played John Dykes (of the Dykes Magic City String Band) GDad tuning, and as recorded by Marion Thede in her Fiddle Book. North Carolina fiddler Marcus Martin's version of "Citaco" (recorded in 1942 in the field by Artus Moser) is similar to the Kentucky tune "Calico."

Marcus Martin



Martin sang this verse to the tune:

Way down in the old Citaco,
The girls they plow and the boys they hoe;
That’s the way they do in the old Citaco,
That’s the way they do in the old Citaco.

Source for notated version: Marcus Marin (N.C.) [Milliner & Koken].

Printed Source: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes). 2011; p. 112.

Recorded sources: County 527, The Swamp Rooters (Lowe Stokes) - "Old Time Fiddle Classics, vol. 2: Original Recordings 1927-1934." Document DOCD8045, Lowe Stokes in Chronological Order, vol. 1: 1927-1930 (1999 reissue; appears as "Citago"). University of North Carolina SFC CD 100, Marcus Martin - "When I Get My New House Done" (recorded in 1942).

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index [1].
Hear Lowe Stokes' recording at Juneberry 78's [2]
Hear Marcus Martin's 1942 recording at Slippery Hill [3]


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