X:1
T:Roscoe
S:Kyle Creed (1912–1982, originally from Surry County, northwest North Carolina,
S:and, from 1960 on, from Carroll County, Virginia)
M:C|
L:1/8
D:Mountain LP 301, Kyle Creed - Blue Ridge Mountain Square Dance Time
F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/roscoe
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
K:G
ef|g2d2 edB2|dBAG- G2g2-|gagf eg3 |a3b a2ef|
+slide+g2d2 ed B2|+slide+c3d cBA(_B|=B)(Bd)B AGFD|G3A G2:|
|:DG-|G2G2 AB-B2|c3d cA_B-=B-|BAGB AGFE|D3E D2DG-|
G2G2 A(B B2)|c3 d cA_B-=B-|BAGB AGFD|G3A G4:|]
ROSCOE. Old-Time, Breakdown/Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AA'BB (Phillips). The tune was in the repertoire of fiddler and banjo player Kyle Creed (1912–1982), who learned it from from Roscoe Russell; Creed couldn't remember the name of the tune and called it after his source. Creed was from Surry County, North Carolina, and worked as a carpenter and ran a country store at Piper’s Gap, near the Blue Ridge Parkway and not far from Galax, Virginia. He was also an instrument maker and a member of the band The Camp Creek Boys, whose members also included Roscoe Russell on guitar and baritone ukulele. Kyle Creed & Roscoe Russell
Russell was from Carroll County, southwest Virginia, near Galax, and was also a carpenter and maker of Appalachian dulcimers whose instruments tended to be louder than other dulcimers due to the innovation of a false back or double-bottom. He won the Galax Old Fiddler’s Convention dulcimer competition in 1976.
Additional notes
Source for notated version: - Jere Canote (Seattle) [Phillips].
Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 202. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 133.
Recorded sources: - Mountain LP 301, The Camp Creek Boys - "Blue Ridge Mountain Square Dance Time" (1972). Marimac 9043, Boiled Buzzards - "Fine Dining" (1991). Rounder Records, Bob Paisley and the Southern Mountain Boys - "Lovesick and Sorrow" (1978).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear Kyle Creeds recording at Slippery Hill [2]
Hear the tune played by Matt Brown [3] (slow [4])
