Cabin Creek
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Cabin Creek" is an American reel in cut time and G Major. The parts are played ABCCD.<br> Some claim that it is an upland country version of "Barlow Knife" known in<br> West Virginia, southwestern Virginia and East Kentucky. This melody is very different<br> from most versions of that tune.<br> It was in the repertoire of Ashland, northeast Kentucky, fiddler Ed Haley (1885-1951)<br> who played it in four parts.<br> It was also played (in three parts) by Glen Lyn, Giles County, Virginia,<br> fiddler Henry Reed, who was recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour for the<br> Library of Congress in 1966. According to Jabbour's notes,<br> Reed said he learned it from Mr. Underwood, who had moved from Franklin County, Va.,<br> to Monroe County, and described it as an old Franklin County piece.<br> Cabin Creek flows into the Kanawha River above Charleston, West Virginia, and was<br> the site of a famous coal mining strike, but Jabbour thinks the title probably was<br> meant to evoke the creek itself rather than to commemorate a labor struggle.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. His comment:<br> An Interesting combination of familiar phrases that feels like variations on a theme.<br> It was printed in Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> It was recorded by Ed Haley on Ed Haley vol 2 - Grey Eagle (1997) (From home<br> recordings made in the 1940's) and<br> Mac Benford on Half Past Four: Clawhammer Tribute to Ed Haley (2004).<br>
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