Citaco: Difference between revisions

Find traditional instrumental music
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 11: Line 11:
}}
}}
<p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">
<p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">
'''CITACO'''. AKA - "Citigo," "Citico." AKA and see "[[Down to the Wildwood to Shoot the Buffalo]]." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; north Georgia, Tennessee. GDad 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." 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."  
'''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."  
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>

Revision as of 05:36, 12 February 2011


Citaco  Click on the tune title to see or modify Citaco's annotations. If the link is red you can create them using the form provided.Browse Properties <br/>Special:Browse/:Citaco
Query the Archive
Query the Archive
 Theme code Index    
 Also known as    Citigo, Citico, Down to the Wildwood to Shoot the Buffalo
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Old-Time
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    
 Accidental    
 Mode    
 Time signature    
 History    
 Structure    
 Editor/Compiler    
 Book/Manuscript title    
 Tune and/or Page number    
 Year of publication/Date of MS    
 Artist    Biography:Swamp Rooters (The --Lowe Stokes & Bert Layne)
 Title of recording    Citaco
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    Brunswick 566
 Year recorded    1930
 Media    
 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."

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.

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").

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index [1].


REPLACE THIS LINE WITH THE ABC CODE OF THIS TUNE