Annotation:Evansville (2)
Tune properties and standard notation
EVANSVILLE (2). American, Reel. USA, Missouri. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Similar to "Ratcatcher's Reel," "Clem Titus Jig," "Wide Awake Reel," "Peggy Whiffle's." Howard Marshall writes: "We play this in the key of G major...Evansville is now just a sign by the railroad tracks, a tiny unrealised railroad town a few miles from the farm where I was born, on the Randolph-Monroe County line in central Missouri. The tune was popularised by 'old man Dalton' (Charlie Dalton), a good local dance fiddler in former times."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 33. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883;
Recorded sources: