Annotation:Natchez Under the Hill (3)

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NATCHEZ UNDER THE HILL [3]. Old-Time, Breakdown. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (Phillips). Another variant of "Natchez Under the Hill (1)," this time showing more blues influences with a smoother, more modern, bowing style.

Sources for notated versions: John Hartford [Phillips]; Floyd Engstrom [Silberberg].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; p. 163. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 105.

Recorded sources: Rounder CD 0392, John Hartford - "Wild Hog in the Red Brush and a Bunch of Others You Might Not Have Heard" (1996. Learned from Texas fiddler Benny Thomasson "one night in Dallas at a birthday party").

See also listing at:
Hear fiddler Vi Wickham's version on youtube.com [1]
See the transcription/mp3 of Lewis Thomasson's version at Austin Rogers' Dr. Fiddle site [2]

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