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Tune History

The Stories Behind Your Favorite Tunes

Altamont

The John Lusk Band from
Warren County, Tennessee

Billy In The Low Ground

Who is Billy?
What is The Low Ground?

Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine

The Most Played Old Time Tune Ever?

Boyne Water

English Kings Battle Each Other
A Ballad Is Born

Buck Eyed Rabbit

Rabbit Skips And The Rabbit Hops

Chinquapin Hunting

What's a chinquapin? Why hunt it?

Duck River

From The Playing Of John Salyer

Fine Times At Our House

West Virginia Fiddler Edden Hammons

Going To The Free State

From Virginia Fiddler John Ashby
and The Free State Ramblers

Hangman's Reel

A Popular Canadian Export

Knoxville Rag

Richard Burnett, Byrd Moore, and Dick Taylor

Mountaineer's Love Song

Goodbye Liza Jane

New Five Cents

Buffalo Nickel, Ruffled Drawers, etc.

Possum On The Rail

From The Mississippi Possum Hunters

Shove The Pig’s Foot A Little Further In The Fire

A Crafty Tactic To Conceal Porcine Pilferage?

Tennessee Girls

John Dykes Magic City Trio
from Kingsport, Tennessee

Anchored In Love Divine

James Rowe and James Vaughan

Bob Taylor's March

From The Playing Of Charlie Acuff

Booth Shot Lincoln

From The Collection Of Bascom Lamar Lunsford

Breakin' Up Christmas

Hooray Jake, Hooray John

Calico Billy In The Low Ground

Modern Version(s) Of A Classic
From The West Coast

Dubuque

A Midwest Favorite With
Lots Of Different Names

East Tennessee Blues

Charlie Bowman from
Gray Station, Tennessee

Going Back To Israel

A Birthday Gift From June Drucker
(and nothing to do with Israel)

Green River March

Roane County Ramblers

Hy Patillion

Chattanooga Fiddler Jess Young

Mississippi Sawyer

The Downfall Of Paris

Nail That Catfish To The Tree

By Steve Rosen From The Volo Bogtrotters

Old Piss

Sprightly March, Unfortunate Title

Sandy River

North Carolina Fiddler Marcus Martin

Squirrel Heads and Gravy

Legend, practical joke, or both?

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