Eminence Breakdown
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Eminence Breakdown" is an American reel in cut time and D major. The parts are played<br> AA'BB'. It is an American version of the Irish reel<br> "The Merry Blacksmith".<br> It was popularized by Orzark fiddler Gene Goforth. The standard notation transcription<br> follows the transcription by John Hartford from Goforth's playing. The tune as he played<br> it is crooked with 10 measures in the A part.<br> Goforth grew up in Eminence, Shannon County, Missouri and this tune is named after<br> that town. John Hartford, in his notes for Goforth’s CD titled Emminence [sic]<br> Breakdown, links the tune to: "The Merry Blacksmith" and the other tunes in the same<br> family: "Corkonian Reel", "The Boys of the Lake", "The Railroad", "The Police Jacket" and<br> "The Shepherd on the Gap".<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher from Burt Feintuch and Bruce Greene.<br> It was printed in<br> Beisswenger & McCann's Ozark Fiddle Music (2008).<br> It was recorded by Gene Goforth on Emminence Breakdown (1997) and<br> John Hartford on Hamilton Ironworks (2001).<br>
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