Annotation:Whip the Devil around the Stump
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WHIP(PING) THE DEVIL AROUND THE STUMP. AKA and see "Boogerman," "Chasing the Devil Around a Stump," "Hummingbird Reel." Old Time, Breakdown. USA, Eastern Tenn., Western N.C. Broadway Records A1964 (78 RPM), 1924?, J. Dedrick Harris {Harris was a legendary fiddler, born in Tennessee, who played regularly with Bob Taylor while he was running for Governor of the state in the late 1800's. He moved to western North Carolina in the 1920's and influenced a generation of fiddlers there: Osey Helton, Bill Hensley, Manco Sneed and Marcus Martin, to name a few of the outstanding ones}. The tune was also in the repertoire of North Carolina fiddler Osey Helton.
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