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"Cattle in the Cane", also known as "Cattle in the Corn" is an old-time or Bluegrass breakdown
from Texas in A Mixolydian ('A' part) & A Aeolian ('B' part). The parts are played AABB (Brody) or
AA'BB (Phillips).
The melody was recorded by Texan M.J. Bonner in the 1920's. It is often played with a pizzicato feature. Sources for notated versions are Joe Green [Brody] and Sam Bush & Benny Thomasson (Texas) [Phillips]. It was printed in Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983) and Phillips' Traditional American Fiddler Tunes, Vol. 1 (1994). It was recorded by Lonnie Peerce on Golden Fiddle Tunes, Joe Green on Joe Green's Fiddle Album (appears as "Cattle in the Corn"), Glen Smith on Say Old Man (1990), Berline, Bush and O'Conner on In Concert, Gerry Milnes & Lorriane Lee Hammond on Hell Up Coal Holler (1999) and Norman Blake on Directions. |