Annotation:Searcy County Rag
X:1 T:Searcy County Rag S:Ashley's Melody Men (Arkansas) M:C| L:1/8 D:Victor 40158 (78 RPM), Ashley's Melody Men (1929) F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/searcy-county-rag Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:C [de]-|[ee]cGE GGAE|GGAE G3[de]|-[ee]cGE GGAE|GA[Gc]A [G3c3]:| g3a g2e2|egae g4|g^fga g=fed|cBcd c4| g3a g2e2|egae g2c'2-|c'e ae gfed|cBcd c4:|]
SEARCY COUNTY RAG. Old-Time, Country Rag. USA, Arkansas. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’. The original recording of Ashley’s Melody Men playing the tune dates to October, 1929, when the group travelled to Memphis, Tenn., to record. "Searcy County Rag" is credited to Anson Fuller and Hubert M. Ashley on the record label. The group hailed from around Marshall, Searcy County, Arkansas, and included fiddlers Anson Fuller and Vern Baker, guitarist Arlie Baker, steel guitarist Hobart Ashley, and banjo player Homer Treat. Drew Beisswenger (2008) points to similarities in the first strain with “Chicken Reel (1),” and in the second strain with Clark Kessinger’s version of “Jake Gillie.”