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Sheet Music for "Saturday Night Rag"Saturday Night RagSource: Lonnie RobertsonDiscography: Caney Mountain CEP 213, Lonnie Robertson (c. 1960's)Transcription: Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz



SATURDAY NIGHT RAG. American, Country Rag (cut time). USA; Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune was first recorded for Bluebird Records in the Texas Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, by Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers in a blazingly fast version by fiddler Jesse Ashlock, learned directly from Kentucky fiddler Clifford Gross when Gross was a member of the Light Crust Doughboys in Fort Worth [1]. The group was a transitional one from old-time string band to western swing. They recorded prolifically and appeared in a half-dozen 'B' westerns in the 1940's.

Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers

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Recorded sources: -Acrobat ACRCD132, Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers - "Saturday Night Rag, vol. 1 1934-1936" (2003). Bluebird B-6599 (78 RPM), Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers (1936). Bluebird AXM2 5503, "Bill Boyd's Cowboy Rambers" (1975. Originally recorded 1936). Caney Mountain Records CEP 212 (privately issued extended play LP), Lonnie Robertson (Mo.) and the Cane Mountain Boys - "Favorite Fiddle Tunes" (c. 1965-66).

See also listing at:
Hear Lonnie Roberston's (Missouri) 1960's recording on youtube.com [1]
Hear Chris Delaney's field recording of the tune played by Burrell Reed (Oklahoma) at Slippery Hill [2]



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  1. Bob Pinson, Country Music Foundation, Nashville, in liner notes to RCA "Bill Boyd's Cowboy Rambers"
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