"East Tennessee Blues", also known as "Hey Mr. Muskrat", "Honeysuckle", "Honeysuckle Rag", "Huckleberry Blues" and "Poca River Blues" is a tune credited to Tennessee fiddler Charlie Bowman (1889-1962) who is said to have composed it in the 1920’s. Bowman had not named the tune prior to recording it and the name "East Tennessee Blues" was suggested by fiddler and bandleader Al Hopkins (of Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters, featuring Bowman on fiddle). This is one of the post-ragtime "rags" that fiddlers and mandolin players developed in the early 20th century using the syncopated rhythms of the ragtime tradition. Other rags/blues tunes in this collections are: "Cherry River Rag" "Colored Aristocracy" "Dora Dean" "L & N Rag" "Old Jackson Stomp" "Pig Ankle Rag" "Ragtime Annie" - all in the Tunes section and "Eli Green's Cakewalk" "Hawkin's Rag" "Horace Hanesworth" "Sister Kate" "Stone's Rag" "Woody's Rag" - in the Legacies section.