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RUSTIC DANCE--SCOTTISCHE [3], THE. AKA and see "Billy Wilson's Clog,” “California Dance,” “California Hornpipe,” "Evening Pleasures Schottische," “Kenion Clog,” “Mason-Dixon Schottische (The),” “Nightingale (2) (The),” "O Dear Mother My Toes Are Sore (1)," “Parkersburg Landing,” “Peacock Rag,” “Rustic Hornpipe,” “Starlight Clog,” “Wilson's Clog (2).” American, Canadian; Schottische. USA; Missouri, Nebraska, Michigan, Kentucky, North Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, New York. D Major (Christeson): C Major (Messer). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Messer): ABC (Christeson). A common, though widely varied dance tune in the East, Midwest and other parts of the country. It can be heard rendered in various rhythms, including a schottische, although some maintain that it is actually a difficult tune to perform that dance to. Northeastern Kentucky fiddler J.P. Fraley told writer and old-time fiddler Kerry Blech that a lot of the old-timers in his area played it but that he did not recall anyone dancing to it. Musicologist Jim Kimball, however, reports the tune is commonly played for a schottische for community dances in western New York and that fiddler Mark Hamilton plays a two part version in C which he calls "Humpty Dumpty Schottische.” He thinks his dad learned it when visiting the Toronto World's Fair in 1902. Fiddler Lauchlin Shaw, from the North Carolina piedmont region, had the tune in his repertoire, learned from Virgil Craven. Fiddler Les Raber of Hastings, Michigan, played the tune in the key of C Major, as did Lonnie Austin of the Spray/Eden area of North Carolina. West Virginia traditional musician Burl Hammons played it on the banjo and called it “Wilson's Clog (2).”

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Bob Walters (Burt County, Nebraska) [Christeson].

Printed sources : - R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 2), 1984; p. 107. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 164, p. 111 (appears as “Clog in C Major”).

Recorded sources: - County Records, Babe Spangler – “Old Virginia Fiddlers” (appears as “Schottische”). County 723, Oscar Jenkins - "Back Home in the Blue Ridge." Edison Records (78 RPM), John Baltzell {Ohio} (1928). MSOTFA 007, Charlie Walden - "Draggin the Bow" (1985). Smithsonian/Folkways, Burl Hammons – “The Hammons Family.” Walter McNew (Ky.) – “Black Jack Grove.”

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear Cyril Stinnett (1912-86, northwest Mo.) play the tune at Slippery Hill [2]