Annotation:Tallapoosa Bound
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TALLAPOOSA BOUND. American, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Tallapoosa Bound" is a breakdown recorded in 1930 by Georgia fiddler biography:A.A._Gray (1881-1939), accompanied on guitar by John "Seven Foot Dilly" Dilleshaw, in 1930. Dilleshaw contributed a spoken lyric about Tallapoosa, "where the yellow-legged chickens are from". Fiddler A.A. Gray and guitarist John Dilleshaw recorded four sides together in Atlanta in March, 1930, including “Tallapoosa Bound”/”Streak O’ Lean-Streak O’ Fat” and “N….r Baby”/”The Old Ark’s a’Moving.”
Tallapoosa is a city in Haralson County, Georgia, near the state line with Alabama, located almost mid-way between Atlanta and Birmingham. Gray moved to Tallapoosa when he was about aged 25, and spent the rest of his life there. It was in Tallapoosa that he formed Gray's String Band, comprising himself and Fred Hill on fiddles, Charlie Thompson on guitar and Henry West on banjo.
