Stone's Rag
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
Also known as "Whiskers", "Lone Star Rag" and "Forty-Eight Dogs in the Meathouse".<br> Composed and featured by Oscar Stone, fiddler for Dr. Humphrey Bates' Possum Hunters,<br> a 1920's-1930's Nashville string band. Stone himself never recorded it.<br> It was first recorded in 1928 by his friend Charlie Arrington, a fiddler<br> from Tennessee in the Grand Ole Opry band Paul Warmack's Gully Jumpers.<br> It was later recorded by Thomas C. Ashley, Banish Misfortune, Byron Berline<br> and others.<br> There supposedly are records from the Opry indicating Stone played his tune<br> on broadcasts at WSM.<br> This is one of the post-ragtime "rags" that fiddlers and mandolin players<br> developed in the early 20th century using the syncopated rhythms of the<br> ragtime tradition.<br> Other rags/blues tunes in this collections are:<br> Cherry River Rag<br> Colored Aristocracy<br> Dora Dean<br> Old Jackson Stomp<br> Pig Ankle Rag<br> Ragtime Annie<br> Stone's Rag<br> - all in the Tunes section and<br> East Tennessee Blues<br> Eli Greens Cakewalk<br> Hawkin's Rag<br> Horace Hanesworth<br> Sister Kate<br> Woody's Rag<br> - in the Legacies section.<br> I learned it from the New Lost City Ramblers album "String Band Instrumentals" (1964). <br>
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