X:1
T:Prosperity Special
N:From the playing of fiddler Buster Grass (Bethany, Oklahoma), recorded in
N:1976 by Jim Renner.
N:Originally from Bob Wills
N:Some slurs are slides
M:C|
L:1/8
D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nvQK_qnI0E
D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/prosperity-special
Z:Andrew Kuntz
K:C
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|:d-|[M:C|]eg3- gagd|ecd-c- c4|[fg]-[fa]-[f2a2]- [fa]bab|(gab)g a-g3|
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PROSPERITY SPECIAL. AKA and see "Pike's Peak," "Rat Cheese under the Hill." American, Reel (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A retitling of the tune called "Rat Cheese under the Hill" originally recorded by the Kessinger Brothers in 1929, and given the wikipedia:Bob Wills and band's western swing treatment. Perhaps Wills or Vocalion thought a topical, hopeful but blander title would sell better ("Prosperity is just ahead" was a catch phrase of the latter 1930's).
Additional notes
Recorded sources : - Country Music Foundation CMF 010-L, Bob Wills - "Fiddle" (1987. Reissue of 1938 recording). Vocalion 05228 (78 RPM), Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1939. Recorded Nov., 1938, in Dallas, Texas, with Wills, Jesse Ashlock and Sleepy Johnson on fiddles and Leon McAuliffe, steel guitar).
See also listing at : Hear Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys recording at youtube.com [1]
Hear Buster Grass's 1976 field recording by Jim Renner at Slippery Hill [ttps://www.slippery-hill.com/content/prosperity-special]
