Katy Hill
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Katy Hill", also known as "Trap Hill Tune" is an old-time and Bluegrass breakdown from Virginia,<br> West Virginia, Tennessee, northeast Alabama, Missouri and Nebraska in G Major. The parts are played<br> AABBCC, AABB (Christeson, Lowinger, Phillips), AB (Brody) or ABC (Beisswenger & McCann).<br> The C part is often short (4 measures).<br> The melody has widespread currency among American fiddlers in the South and Midwest. North Carolina<br> fiddler Tommy Jarrell told an interviewer in 1982 he thought the melody derived from "Piney Woods Gal"<br> and that "Sally Johnson" was in turn derived from "Katy Hill".<br> "Katy Hill" was popularized by Tennessee's Fiddlin' Arthur Smith and Kentucky mandolinist Bill Monroe<br> (who recorded it in 1940), but it was also known as a signature tune of north Georgia fiddler Lowe<br> Stokes (1898-1983), who recorded it in 1928 along with Riley Puckett and Fate Norris.<br> It was printed in Beisswenger & McCann's Ozarks Fiddle Music (2008),<br> Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Christeson's Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, Vol. 1 (1973),<br> Lowinger's Bluegrass Fiddle (1974),<br> Phillips' Fiddlecase Tunebook (1989) and<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, Vol. 1 (1994).<br> It was recorded by<br> Paul Warren on America's Greatest Breakdown Player (1930),<br> Charlie Monroe on On the Noonday Jamboree- 1944 (appears as "Going Around the World"),<br> John Ashby on Down on Ashby's Farm,<br> Kenny Baker on Grassy Fiddle Tunes<br> Lowe Stokes on Lowe Stokes, vol. 1: 1927-1930 (reissue, appears as "Sally Johnson",<br> Smokey Valley Boys on Music of North Carolina (1978),<br> The Puryear Brothers Band on Visits (1981),<br> Bill Monroe on The Father of Bluegrass Music,<br> Oscar and Eugene Wright on Old-Time Fiddle and Guitar Music from West Virginia,<br> Mac Benford & the Woodshed All-Stars on Willow (1996),<br> Bill Long on Fiddle Jam Session,<br> Jim Herd on Old Time Ozark Fiddling and<br> Edden Hammons on Edden Hammons Collection, Disc 2.<br>
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