Black Cat in a Briarpatch
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Black Cat in a Briarpatch" is an American reel in cut time and G Major ('A' part) &<br> C Major ('B' part). The parts are played AABB (Krassen), AA'BB (Phillips) or AA'BB'<br> (Lamancusa).<br> An old-time quadrille (i.e., a tune with each strain in a different key) from the repertoire<br> of Copen, Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003).<br> Phillips and Lamancusa reverse the two parts of the tune from Krassen.<br> The melody is 'crooked', or irregular, as it has an extra beat at the end of the 'A' part.<br> The source for the notated version was Melvin Wine (b. 1909), learned from his father Bob<br> Wine (Braxton County, W.Va.).<br> Wine tended to play 'c' notes that occur just prior to a 'd' note in the first strain<br> (usually found at the end of a measure) intonated between natural and sharp.<br> It was printed in Krassen's Masters of Old Time Fiddling (1983),<br> Clare Milliner & Walt Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> It was recorded by Erynn Marshall on Calico (2005) and<br> Melvin Wine on Cold Frosty Morning (1976).<br>
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