Annotation:Pike's Peak
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PIKE'S PEAK. AKA and see "Prosperity Special," "Rat Cheese Under the Hill." American, Breakdown. USA; Arkansas, Texas. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (Johnson, Phillips, Songer). Recorded by fiddler Ted Sharp and his band, whom Richard Nevins (1972) suggests came from central-eastern Arkansas. It had previously been recorded by Clark Kessinger under the title “Rat Cheese Under the Hill” (obviously a corruption of the tune name “Natchez Under the Hill”). According to Paul Mitchell, both Ted Sharp and Clark Kessinger went into position playing on the violin for parts of the tune. The "Prosperity Special" name for the tune comes from Texas fiddler and band leader Bob Wills (later recorded by Clarence "Tater" Tate under that title).
Source for notated version: Ted Sharp & Bob Wills [Phillips]; Carthy Cisco [Silberberg].
Printed sources: Johnson (The Kitchen Musician No. 2: Occasional Collection of Old-Timey Fiddle Tunes for Hammer Dulcimer, Fiddle, etc.), 1982 (revised 1988 & 2003); p. 12. Phillips (Fiddlecase Tunebook), 1989; p. 33. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 184. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 120. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 160.
Recorded sources: County 507, Ted Sharp - "Old-Time Fiddle Classics, vol. 2." Document DOCD , "The Kessinger Brothers: Complete Recordings in Chronological Order, 1929" (1997). Folk Legacy 76, Ron Kane & Skip Gorman - “Powder River” (1993).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]