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HORSE SHOE BEND. American Reel (cut time). USA, Alabama. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Horse Shoe Bend is a placename in Alabama. The tune is related to the Kentucky tunes known variously as "Soap in the Washpan" or "Hot Corn". Lee Stripling, inheritor of the Stripling family fiddling tradition, plays the tune in four parts.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Charlie Stripling (1896-1966, Pickens & Lamar Counties, west Alabama) [Milliner & Koken].

Printed sources : - Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 306.

Recorded sources: -County 401, "The Stripling Brothers". Document Records DOCD 8007, "The Stripling Brothers vol. 1, 1928-1934" (1997). Fretless FR 160, The Double Decker String Band - "Sentimental Songs and Old Time Melodies" (1981). Vocalion 5395 (78 RPM), Stripling Brothers (Alabama) {1929}.

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear Charlie Striplings recording at Slippery Hill [2]

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