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"Ladies on the Steamboat", also known as
Tugboat",
or "Lady on a Steamboat" is an
old-time breakdown known in Nebraska, Missouri and Kentucky in G Major. The parts are played
AB (Lamancusa, Rutherford), AABB (Beisswenger & McCann, Phillips, Titon).
It was a favorite tune of Blind Ed Haley, influential fiddler from northeastern Kentucky. There are some similarities to "Steamboat ‘Round the Bend" and close similarities to Nebraska fiddler Bob Walters’ "Ladies Round the Bend" and "Po’ Black Sheep". It was printed in Beisswenger & McCann's Ozark Fiddle Music (2008), R.P. Christeson's Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 2 (1984), Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994), Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001), It was recorded by Burnett & Rutherford (1927), The Kessinger Brothers in 1929 under the title "Tugboat", Clyde Davenport on Clydeoscope: Rare and Beautiful Tunes from the Cumberland Plateau (1986), Gregory & Davenport on Monticello: Tough Mountain Music from Southern Kentucky (1974), Bob Carlin on Where Did You Get That Hat? (1982), Lonnie Robertson on Lonnie’s Breakdown (1996), Ramblin' Reckless Hobo: The Songs of Dick Burnett and Leonard Rutherford (1970). |