Buck Mountain
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Buck Mountain" is an American reel in D Major. The parts are played AABB'<br> (Phillips, Silberberg), AA'BB (Songer) or AA'B (Lamancusa).<br> Buck Mountain in northwestern Albermarle County, Virginia is the only peak in<br> its vicinity and a fairly prominent local feature.<br> The tune is sourced to Napoleon Bonaparte "Uncle Nip" Chisholm, a fiddler from<br> Woodridge, in southern Albemarle County, Virginia, who was active in the 1930's.<br> "Uncle Nip" supposedly derived his nickname from his drinking habits and not<br> from a shortening of his given name.<br> The tune was popularized regionally by a group called the Virginia Vagabonds,<br> formed in 1932, whose guitar player, Earl Smith, was related to Chisholm and<br> learned the melody from him (the elderly fiddler was perhaps his great uncle).<br> Remarkably, the Virginia Vagabonds survived as a band, with some original and<br> near-original members, into the 21st century.<br> It was printed in Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021) and<br> Songer's Portland Collection (1997).<br>
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