Annotation:Fiddler's Hoedown
Tune properties and standard notation
FIDDLER'S HOEDOWN. AKA and see "Dead Slave (The)." Old-Time, Breakdown. D Major (Marshall). DDae tuning (fiddle). See note for "Dead Slave (The)." It is on Missouri fiddler Charlie Walden's list of '100 essential Missouri fiddle tunes'. "Martha Campbell" is a related melody. The second strain is similar to the Missouri "Brickyard Joe."
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Recorded sources: RSS MLP-38, Pete McMahan - "Missouri Fiddlin' No. 2" (198?). Missouri State Old Time Fiddler's Association 001, Pete McMahon - "Ozark Mountain Waltz." Voyager VRCD 344, Howard Marshall & John Williams - "Fiddling Missouri" (1999. From Otto Griggs of Columbia, Missouri, via Pete McMahon).