"Hawkins Rag" was composed by Ted Hawkins who was one of the great mandolin stylists in early country music. He can be heard playing on some of the late Skillet Lickers recordings. He also recorded with Skillet Lickers guitarist Riley Puckett. I learned this from a New Lost City Ramblers record and it became the theme tune for our band The New Dimension String Band. I sometimes play it as the seond tune in a medley with "Colored Aristocracy" in the Tunes section. 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" "Old Jackson Stomp" "Pig Ankle Rag" "Ragtime Annie" - all in the Tunes section and "East Tennessee Blues" "Eli Green's Cakewalk" "Horace Hanesworth" "Sister Kate" "Stone's Rag" "Woody's Rag" - in the Legacies section.