Annotation:Monroe County Quickstep
X:1 T:Taylor's Quickstep T:Monroe County Quickstep N:From the playing of fiddler Leonard Rutherford (1898-1951) with John Foster M:C| L:1/8 N:play most of the slurs as slides. D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/taylors-quickstep D:Gennett GE 6913 (78 RPM), Rutherford & Foster (1929) Z:Andrew Kuntz K:F SAB|c2 AB cdcA| F4- F2DE |FG-AG F2D2| C6=B,2| CDEF G2C2|(^de-e)c d4|.c2 AB cdcB|A6 AB| c2 AB cdcA|[F4A4]- [F2A2] E2-|FGJ"4"AG F2-D2|C6 =B,2-| CDEF G2c2|(^de-e)c- d4|.c2 AB cdcA|[F6A6]:| K:C |:[M:2/4]G2 cB-|:[M:C|]A2G2E2G2|(cB)cd e2 (ef|g2) (3BcB A2B2|(cd)cA G2E2| |:[M:2/4]JG3 c-|[M:C|]A2G2E2G2|(cB)cd e2 (ef|g2) (3BcB A2B2|1c4 G3c:|2c6S||
MONROE COUNTY QUICKSTEP. AKA and see "Taylor's Quickstep (2)." American, Quickstep. USA, Kentucky. F Major ('A' part) & C Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'AA'BBBB. The second strain is "crooked", with an extra beat added to the fourth measure. The tune was recorded in 1929 for Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana, by fiddler Leonard Rutherford (1898-1951) paired with Kentucky singer John D. Foster (1896-1984). It was released on Gennett as "Taylor's Quickstep" and on Supertone as "Monroe County Quickstep." "Taylor's Quickstep" was named for Dennis Taylor, Gennett's talent scout in central Kentucky (according to Rick Kennedy, "Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots" (2013), agreeing with Tony Russell, who also described Taylor as Rutherford & Foster's manager [see Russell's "John D. Foster" in Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost", 2007).
The late prof. Charles Wolfe suggested that Rutherford may have learned it from one of the famous fiddling governors of Tennessee, Alf and Bob Taylor. The name Taylor is also associated with Rutherford in 1928 recordings with Dick Burnett, Byrd Moore, and a fiddler named Jim Taylor from Norton Virginia (just over the state line from Kentucky). See also the related "Washington Quadrille" and "Up and Down Old Eagle Creek."
