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|f_annotation='''HERRINBROOK REEL'''. AKA - "Herrin' Brook," "Herring Brook." Canadian, Reel | |f_annotation='''HERRINBROOK REEL'''. AKA - "Herrin' Brook," "Herring Brook." Canadian, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. "Herrin' Brook" was composed fiddler [[wikipedia:Tommy Doucet]] (1902-1992), originally from Digby, Nova Scotia, but longtime resident of the greater Boston, Mass., region. Doucet called it simply his 'B flat reel' for some time, until he was asked what the title was by Henery Riendeau at his recording session for his 1975 LP "Downeast Star". Spontaneously, Doucet's replay was: "Just call it the Herrin' Brook!" | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Tom Doucet (New Brunswick/eastern Mass.) and Don Roy [Phillips]. | |f_source_for_notated_version=Tom Doucet (New Brunswick/eastern Mass.) and Don Roy [Phillips]. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 111. | |f_printed_sources=Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 111. | ||
|f_recorded_sources=Fiddler FRLP001, Tom Doucet - "The Down East Star. | |f_recorded_sources=Fiddler FRLP001, Tom Doucet - "The Down East Star" (1975). Rounder 7016, "The Slippery Stick: Traditional Fiddling from New Brunswick" (1996) | ||
|f_see_also_listing=Hear the Robichaud Brothers play the tune at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/herring-brook]<br /> | |f_see_also_listing=Hear the Robichaud Brothers play the tune at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/herring-brook]<br /> | ||
Hear Tom Doucet play the tune at youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCZ-rdDjSkg] | Hear Tom Doucet play the tune at youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCZ-rdDjSkg] | ||
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HERRINBROOK REEL. AKA - "Herrin' Brook," "Herring Brook." Canadian, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. "Herrin' Brook" was composed fiddler wikipedia:Tommy Doucet (1902-1992), originally from Digby, Nova Scotia, but longtime resident of the greater Boston, Mass., region. Doucet called it simply his 'B flat reel' for some time, until he was asked what the title was by Henery Riendeau at his recording session for his 1975 LP "Downeast Star". Spontaneously, Doucet's replay was: "Just call it the Herrin' Brook!"
