Annotation:Sugar Tree Stomp
X:1 T:Sugar Tree Stomp N:From the playing of Fiddling' Arthur Smith L:1/8 R:Reel D:Bluebird B-6927, Arthur Smith Trio (1937) D:County 547, "Fiddlin' Arthur Smith and His Dixieliners vol. 2" (1978) D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/sugar-tree-stomp Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G D2|GFGA Bdef|g2g4g2-|ga g2([dg]fe2)|[F4A4]- [F2A2]FE| DEFA- ABde|f2[d4f4](=f|^f)afd ed2B|G6D2| GFGA Bdef|g2[d4g4] +slide+b-|b^a-b2 b-a3|[c6e6] cB| AGFE DFAg|f2d4(=f|^f)ded BG A2|G6:| |:(Bc|d2)[d2g2]- [dg]edc|B2 G4 GF|EC2D- EGE-D|C6B,2| DCDE FGAg|f2d4(=f2|^f)deg fded| B6G(A| B)d3- dedc|B2G4 GF|EC2D- EGE-D|C6B,2| DCDE FGAg|f2d4(=f2|^f)ded BGAF|G6:|]
SUGAR TREE STOMP. American, Reel (cut time). USA, Tenn. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Named for the tiny community of Sugar Tree, Tenn., southwest of Dickson City, Dickson County, it was composed by Arthur Smith and recorded by the Arthur Smith Trio in 1936 (although fiddler Red Wilson credits it to his grandfather, A.W. Leford). Bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker says (on notes to County 736): "Sugar Tree Stomp, that's from Arthur Smith. Now I'll tell you what, you know, Arthur was one of the world's greatest fiddlers, in my mind, but I didn't play it like Arthur played it. I heard a little different way of going about playing it, not that I thought I could rearrange it and make the tune better; it's just what I heard and I wanted to record it that way.”