Cowboy's Dream
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Cowboy’s Dream" is an American reel in cut time and D Major. The parts are played AB<br> (Silberberg), AABB (Kuntz) or AABB' (Phillips).<br> John McCutcheon identifies "Cowboy's Dream" as an Ohio tune, although its origins are<br> somewhat obscure. Kerry Blech says the tune was played by Barnesville, Ohio, fiddler<br> John W. Hutchison (1915-1979), from whom it was learned by fiddler Greg Dearth who was<br> playing with Hutchison's sons in a bluegrass band for a time. Hutchison says he learned<br> many of his tunes from "'old man' Bondy, an Irishman" although whether this reel was one<br> is not known. Dearth later played with the Hot Mud Family, who Blech thinks "were probably<br> the main conduit for this tune getting spread around."<br> This is not the same tune as the "Cowboy's Dream" song printed in John and Alan Lomax's<br> Folk Song USA.<br> Source for the notated version is fiddler Bill Christopherson and Scott Ainslie with the<br> Fly By Night String Band.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> It was printed in Clare Milliner & Walt Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American<br> Fiddle Tunes (2011),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021) and<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002).<br> It was recorded by John McCutcheon on Fine Times at Our House (1982),<br> Mac Benford With Eric Thompson and Sandy Bradley on Backwoods Banjo - Old Time Love<br> Songs And Dance Tunes (1979),<br> The Fat City String Band (Walt Koken, Mac Benford, Bob Potts) on The Original Fat City<br> String Band (1990) and<br> The Fly By Night String Band on The Fly By Night String Band (1980).<br>
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