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X:1 T:Wid Goose Chase [4] N:From the playing of fiddler Clyde Davenport (Wayne County, Ky.) N:Davenport (b. 1921) was born in Blue Hole Hollow, near Mt. Pisgah on the N:Cumberland Plateau in south-central Kentucky, not far from the border with N:Tennessee. N:From a field recording by Jim Nelson. Davenport had the tune from Dick N:Burnett, who himself had it from Tenn. Governor Bob Taylor. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Fast." D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/wild-goose-chase-0 Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:Bb Bcdd fgga|gfdd ffg2|Bcdd fgga |gfdB cBB2:| |:B,3B c2dc|BBdB cBFD|B,3B c2dc| BGFF D(B,[B,2D2])| B,3B c2dc|BBdB cBFD|B,3B cdf2|gfdB cBB2:||

WILD GOOSE CHASE [4]. AKA - "Geese Honking." American, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was in the repertoire of Cumberland Plateau, southern Ky., singer, fiddler, banjo and guitar player, blind Dick Burnett (1883-1977), who had the tune from Tennessee's fiddling Governor, Robert Love Taylor (1850-1912). Taylor won the gubernatorial race against his own brother, Alf, who was also a fiddler. Regional fiddler and banjo player Clyde Davenport picked it up from Burnett^[1].

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 95 (as "Geese Honking").

Recorded sources: - County CO-786, Clyde Davenport - "Traditional Music from the Cumberland Plateau vol. 1: Gettin' up the Stairs" (1988, from field recordings 1978-1982. Various artists). Davis Unlimited/Spring Fed Records DU 33014, W.L. Gregory & Clyde Davenport - "Monticello: Tough Mountain Music from Southern Kentucky" (2015. Reissue). Field Recorders Collective FRC 103, "Clyde Davenport vol. 1" (2005). Rounder 0197, Bob Carlin - "Banging & Sawing" (1985, as "Geese Honking"). Learned from Ky. fiddler Clyde Davenport, who had the tune from Dick Burnett). Spring Fed DVD, Clyde Davenport - "Shades of Clyde" (2011).

See also listing at:
Hear a field recording of Clyde Davenport playing the tune at Slippery Hill [1]

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↑ Bobby Fulcher, notes to Sandrock Recording "Gettin' up the Stairs" [2].

[1] Bobby Fulcher, notes to Sandrock Recording "Gettin' up the Stairs" [2].

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-'''WILD GOOSE CHASE [4].''' AKA - "Geese Honking."  American, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was in the repertoire of Cumberland Plateau, southern Ky., singer, fiddler, banjo and guitar player Dick Burnett, who had the tune from Tennessee's fiddling Governor, Bob Taylor.  Regional fiddler and banjo player Clyde Davenport picked it up from Burnett<ref>Bobby Fulcher, notes to Sandrock Recording "Gettin' up the Stairs" [http://www.sandrockrecordings.com/album/gettin-up-the-stairs-traditional-music-from-the-cumberland-plateau-volume-1/]. </ref>.
+'''WILD GOOSE CHASE [4].''' AKA - "Geese Honking."  American, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was in the repertoire of Cumberland Plateau, southern Ky., singer, fiddler, banjo and guitar player, blind Dick Burnett (1883-1977), who had the tune from Tennessee's fiddling Governor, Robert Love Taylor (1850-1912). Taylor won the gubernatorial race against his own brother, Alf, who was also a fiddler.  Regional fiddler and banjo player Clyde Davenport picked it up from Burnett<ref>Bobby Fulcher, notes to Sandrock Recording "Gettin' up the Stairs" [http://www.sandrockrecordings.com/album/gettin-up-the-stairs-traditional-music-from-the-cumberland-plateau-volume-1/]. </ref>.
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