Annotation:White River Stomp

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WHITE RIVER STOMP. Canadian, American; Country Rag (4/4 time) or Set Dance. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’B (Perlman): AA'BCC (Phillips): AA'BCD (Messer). See also the related "Oklahoma Rag" and "Beaumont Rag."

Source for notated version: Howard Cawley with Jack Cawley's Oklahoma Ridge Runners (Stillwater, Oklahoma) [Phillips]; Harry Lecky (b. 1929, Milburn, West Prince County, Prince Edward Island), who learned it from the radio in the 1940’s, probably, says Perlman, from the playing of Don Messer [Perlman].

Printed sources: Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 97. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 179, p. 124. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 149. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 167.

Recorded sources: Marimac 9111, Jack Cawley's Oklahoma Ridge Runners "Goin' Up Town: Old Time String Bands, vol. 2" (originally recorded in 1930). Rounder CD7014, Harry Lecky – “Fiddlers of Western Prince Edward Island” (1997).