Annotation:Buck Hord

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X:1 T:Buck Hord N:From the playing of Alva Greene (Elliot County, Ky.), recorded in the field by N:Guthrie Meade and Mark Wilson, April, 1975. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel N:AEae tuning (fiddle) D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/buck-hord Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A P:A ECEG FEDF|ECEG F(D[D2F2])|ECEG FEDF|ECEG A2A2:|e2e2e2 e-f P:B edcA AcBA|cA2A [A,2E2](e/f/4g/4|a)ecA AcBA|cABc A2 (e/f/4g/4| a)ecA AcBA|cAA2 [A,2E2](e/f/4g/4|a)ecA AcBA| cABc A2A2|| P:A' AEAg fedf|eceg f(d[d2f2])|ecea fedf|eceg a2aa| eceg fedf|eceg f(d[d2f2])|ecea fedf|eceg a2|| P:B' |:(e/f/4g/4|a)ecA AcBA|cA A2 [A,2E2](e/f/4g/4|a)ecA AcBA|cABG A2:|2 cABG A2A2||

BUCK HORD. AKA - "Buck Hoard." Old-Time. USA, Kentucky. A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). ABA'AB'B. The tune is associated with fiddler Alva Greene. Jeff Titon (2001) finds the tune related to the better-known "Rye Straw." The curious title, suggest John Harrod and Mark Wilson, is perhaps derived from a mishearing of the title "Buck Horn," the name of a creek in Breathitt County, Ky.

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Source for notated version : - Alva Greene (Sandy Hook, Elliot County, Ky., 1974) [Titon].

Printed sources : - Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 19, p. 54.

Recorded sources - Rounder CD-0351, J.P. & Annadeene Fraley (Rush, Ky.) - "Maysville" (1995. Appears as "Buck Herd"). Rounder 0361, Bruce Molsky - "Lost Boy" (1996). Rounder 0376, Alva Greene - "Traditional Fiddle Music of Kentucky, vol. 1: Up the Ohio and Licking Rivers" (1997).

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