ROCKY FORD. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Wolfe County, eastern Kentucky, fiddler Darley Fulks was a third or fourth generation fiddler. His grandfather, Stephen Tutt Sr. was a fiddler, whose own father (Dr. William A. Tutt) was perhaps a fiddler as many of his tunes were pre-Civil War. Tutt Sr. passed on his knowledge of fiddle playing to a son William Mason Tutt, and grandson Darley.
Fulks tended to add extra beats to cadences as well as some internal measures.
Additional notes
Source for notated version: - Darley Fulks (1895-1990, Compton, Wolfe County, Ky., 1977) [Titon].
Printed sources : - Titon (Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 137, p. 163.
Recorded sources: -
See also listing at:
Hear Bruce Greene's 1977 field recording of Darly Fulks playing the tune at the Digital Library of Appalachia [1] and at Slippery Hill [2]
