Back Up and Push (2)
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Back up and Push (2)" also known as "Rubber Dolly" is an American reel in C major.<br> The parts are played: one part (Lowinger), AABB (Brody, Silberberg), AA'BB (Phillips) or<br> AA'BB' (Reiner).<br> "Back up and Push (2)" was first recorded by the Georgia Organ Grinders in Atlanta in 1929<br> for Columbia Records. The group was one of the several Skillet Licker off-shoot groups,<br> whose members combined and recombined in different formations for various ventures.<br> The Organ Grinders featured fiddlers Bert Layne and Clayton McMichen, while another<br> Skillet Lickers fiddler, Lowe Stokes, played the organ on this cut (more prominent in the<br> second strain of the tune on the recording). The 1929 session was their only recording<br> date and they cut six sides, all issued by Columbia Records. A later Skillet Lickers<br> ensemble, led by Gid Tanner, recorded a version in 1934 (backed with "Down Yonder") that<br> became the third best-selling country music record for that year. Gid's son, 17-year-old<br> Gordon Tanner, played uncredited fiddle lead at the session, according to researcher<br> Tony Russell. The jazz-influenced tune is now widespread, having been popularized by bands<br> such as Bill Monroe's and Benny Martin's and influential fiddlers Kenny Baker, Buck Ryan<br> and others. The second part of some versions is little more than a 'double shuffle'<br> (aka hokum shuffle or OBS/Orange Blossom Special shuffle) on the chords F, C and G.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Lowinger's Bluegrass Fiddle (1974),<br> Clare Milliner & Walt Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Reiner's Anthology of Fiddle Styles (1977),<br> Silberberg's 93 Fiddle Tunes I Didn't Learn at Tractor Tavern (2004).<br> It was recorded by Kenny Baker on Frost on the Pumpkin (1976),<br> Bill Monroe on The Father of Bluegrass Music (1962),<br> Marion Sumner and Jesse McReynolds on Old Friends,<br> Buck Ryan on Draggin' the Bow (1976),<br> Benny Martin on The Fiddle Collection (2007),<br> Jason & Pharis Romero on Back up and Push (2010),<br> Graham & Eleanor Townsend on Graham & Eleanor Townsend Live at Barre, Vermont (1981),<br> The Campbell Family on The Campbell Family - Champion Fiddlers (1971),<br> Clem Myers on Clem Myers: Northeast Regional Old Time Fiddle Champion 1967 & 1970 (2017),<br> The Fireside String Band on Square Dance Tunes For a Yankee Caller (1976),<br> Skillet Lickers (78 RPM) (1934) and<br> Snuffy Jenkins & Pappy Sherrell on 33 Years of Pickin' & Pluckin' (1971).<br>
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