"Needlecase", also known as "Needle Case" or "Needle in the Case" is an old-time breakdown in D Major. The parts are played AB, AABB or sometimes BBAA. It was one of the tunes described as a "popular old-time tune" that the Clarke County Democrat of May 9, 1929, predicted would be "rendered in a most approved fashion" at an upcoming contest in Grove Hill, Alabama. Tennessee musician Sam McGee popularized the tune with his finger-picked banjo recording, while Vermont fiddler Pete Sutherland adapted it as a fiddle tune. Tennessee musician Sam McGee popularized the tune with his finger-picked banjo recording, while Vermont fiddler Pete Sutherland adapted it as a fiddle tune. It was printed in Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002), Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021) and Songer's Portland Collection, vol. 2 (2005). It was recorded by The McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith on The McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith (1964), Bob Carlin on Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo (1980) and Mike Seeger on Southern Banjo Sounds (1998). I first it heard it played by Debbie McClatchy at Sunhearth.