Annotation:Wild Hog in the Red Brush

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WILD HOG IN THE RED BRUSH. Old-Time, Breakdown. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. Influential eastern Ky./W.Va. blind fiddler Ed Hayley played a tune by this name. A tune by this title was played by Sherman Lawson on a Frank Hutchinson 78RPM recording released under the title “Miss McCloud’s Reel (Uncle Joe).”

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Recorded sources: Rounder 0392, John Hartford - “Wild Hog in the Red Brush (and a Bunch of Others You Might Not Have Heard)” {1996. Learned from a recording by Amyx Stamper, Harold Stamper’s father}.

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