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MIDNIGHT [3]. AKA and see "Owl Hoot." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Titon/Woodward): AABB (Titon/Masters). The source for the tune is African-American fiddler Jim Booker, of Jessamine County, Ky., whom Mark Wilson says would play this somewhat odd tune at a dance late in the evening, allegedly in hopes of inducing a fight so that he might take a rest!
Sources for notated versions: John Masters (Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., c.1975) [Titon]; Jim Woodward (Camp Nelson, Jessamine County, Ky., 1979) [Titon].
Printed sources: Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; Nos. 104-A, 104B, pp. 132-133.
Recorded sources: McDirlam Greene MGP Productions, Bruce Greene & Hilary Dirlam - "Fiddler's Dozen" (1994. Learned from African-American fiddler Jim Booker via Frankfort, Ky., fiddler Kelly Gilbert {or vice-versa}). Rounder CD 0377, "Traditional Fiddle Music of Kentucky, Vol. 2." Rounder Heritage Series 1166-11592-2, Jim Woodward (et al) - "The Art of Traditional Fiddle" (2001. Woodward was an elderly white farmer who knew Booker and played some of his tunes).
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Hear John Master's recording made in the field in th e 1980's by John Harrod at Berea Digital Content [1]