Cricket on the Hearth
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Cricket on the Hearth" is an old-time or Bluegrass breakdown from Arkansas and east<br> Tennessee in D Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> It is a member of a large tune family that includes "Damon's Winder", "The Devil in<br> Georgia", "Drunken Billy Goat", "Grand Hornpipe", "Marmaduke's Hornpipe", "Mud Fence",<br> "Ride the Goat Over the Mountains", "Rocky Mountain Goat" and "Swiss Chalet".<br> The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by<br> folklorist/musicologist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.<br> It was printed in<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002).<br> It was recorded by <br> Jay Belt on Fiddlin' Jay Belt,<br> Kenny Baker on Portrait of a Bluegrass Fiddler and on Master Fiddler,<br> Smokey Valley Boys on Music of North Carolina (1978),<br> John McCutcheon on The Wind That Shakes the Barley: Hammered Dulcimer Music (1977).<br>
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