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'''BITTER CREEK'''. AKA – "Bitter Creek Breakdown." Old-Time, Texas Style, Bluegrass; Breakdown. USA; Texas, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Brody, Phillips): ABCDD (Devil's Box): AABBCCDD (Christeson). Popularized by fiddler Tommy Jackson. R.P. Christeson says it was apparently a local Texas tune. Texas fiddler Benny Thomasson also had an influential version, played in five parts. He told Gus Garelick that he himself had metaphorically "crossed many a-bitter creek in my life," but maintained there actually was a Bitter Creek in Texas. Joel Shimberg notes the similarity with this tune and French-Canadian fiddler Henri Landry's "Carnival Reel."
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''Sources for notated versions'':
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Red Williams (Dallas, Texas) [Christeson]; Benny Thomasson (Texas) [Brody]; Howdy Forrester via John Hartford [Devil's Box]; Tommy Jackson [Phillips].
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''Printed sources:''
Brody ('''Fiddler's Fakebook'''), 1983; p. 45.
R.P. Christeson ('''Old Time Fiddler's Repertory, vol. 1'''), 1973; No. 130, p. 92.
''The Devil's Box'', vol. 22, No. 4, Winter 1988; p. 51.
Martin ('''Benny Thomasson Fiddle Transcriptions'''), 1997; No. 2, p. 9.
Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 26.
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''Recorded sources:''
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County 724, Benny Thomasson – "Country Fiddlin' from the Big State" (1970).
County CD 2712, Art Stamper – "The Lost Fiddler" (c. 1982).
County 3525, Oscar & Doc Harper (et al) – "Dallas Bound: Old-Time Texas String Bands, vol. 2" (the four-part version of the tune).
MCA 162, Tommy Jackson – "Square Dances Without Calls."
Rounder 0004, Clark Kessinger – "Old Time Music."
Voyager Records, Benny Thomasson – "Say Old Man Can You Play the Fiddle?"
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 Theme code Index    1H51H3 1H531
 Also known as    Bitter Creek Breakdown
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Bluegrass, Contest, Old-Time, Texas/Oklahoma
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    G
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    2/4
 History    
 Structure    ABCDD
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:R.P. Christeson
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Old Time Fiddler's Repertory vol. 1
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 130, p. 92
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1973
 Artist    Benny Thomasson
 Title of recording    Country Fiddlin' from the Big State
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    County 724
 Year recorded    1970
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Bitter Creek: Annotations

X:1 T:Bitter Creek L:1/8 M:2/4 S:Howdy Forrester, transcribed by John Hartford N:The first four bars is the introduction K:G g/a/g/e/ d/g/e/d/|g/d/e/d/ B/G/B/d/|g/a/g/e/ d/g/e/d/|B/G/A/F/ G|| g/b/||b/g/e/g/ e/d/B/c/|d/B/G/B/ A/G/E/G/|D/C/B,/A,/ G,/D/B/c/| d/B/G/B/ A/d/g/a/|b/g/d/g/ e/d/g/a/|g/e/d/B/ A/G/E/F/|G/E/D/C/ B,/D/G/A/|B/G/A/F/ G|| G,/B,/D/B,/ G,/B,/D/G/|E/G/(E/G/) E/D/C/E/|D/B,/G,/B,/ D/G/B/c/| d/B/G/B/ A/G/E/G/|D/B,/G,/B,/ D/F/G/F/|E/G/E/G/ E/D/C/E/|D/B,/G,/B,/ D/G/B/c/| d/B/A/F/ G||:B/d/|g/a/g/e/ d/g/e/d/|g/d/e/B/ dB/d/|g/a/g/e/ d/g/e/d/|B/G/A/F/ G:| |


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