Annotation:Kicking Mule
X:1 T:Kicking Mule N:From the playing of three-finger banjo player Martin Marshall (1905-1996), N:with the Bell Spur String band with his father-in-law fiddler Ernest Stanley. N:They were neighbors of Stella and Taylor Kimble, near Laurel Fork, Patrick County, N:southwestern Virginia. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel D:Heritage/Galax LP 047, "Bell Spur String Band" (1984. Recorded in the 1960's) D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/kicking-mule Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:D Ja2-|abag- fgdg| fedg fedf|abag fgdf|edcd e2a2-| abag fedA|BBBB g2b2-|b2 af gfec|d2d2-d2:| (=f-^f-|f)efe dddB-|AAcA d2(=f-^f-|f)efe dddB-|A3(B cA)de| fefe ddd=c-|BBBA G2GB-|A2G2 F2E2|D2 D2- D2:|]
KICKING MULE. American, Reel. D Major. Standard or ADae tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. "Kicking Mule" is known as a southeastern Tennessee tune. An instrumental version of "Whoa Mule (1)." The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains fiddle tune compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. It is perhaps the same tune as "Bucking Mule." It was also in the repertoire of fiddler Tommy Magness (1911-1972), born in north Georgia near the southeastern Tennessee border.
