Old Coon Dog
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Old Coon Dog", also known as "Coon Dog", "Davy Dugger", "Engine on a Mogull",<br> "Shoot that Turkey Buzzard" or "Higher Up the Monkey Goes" is an old-time breakdown in F Major.<br> The parts are played AB (Silberberg) or AABB (Phillips).<br> The tune is known by the "Old Coon Dog" title in eastern Kentucky and central Appalachia, according<br> to Jeff Titon (Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes). Titon finds recordings under the "Old Coon Dog"<br> title by Vincent Crawford (1985, Anderson County, Kentucky), Alfred Bailey (1986, Fleming County,<br> Kentucky), Kelly Gilbert, Bill Livers (African American fiddler) and eastern Kentucky fiddler<br> Buddy Thomas (Lewis County, Kentucky).<br> "Shoot that Turkey Buzzard" is a distantly related tune and even more distantly (in the high part)<br> is "Greasy String".<br> There were several tunes extant in northeast Kentucky and elsewhere that were called "Coon Dog" or<br> "Old Coon Dog".<br> It was printed in Phillips's Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Silberberg's Complete Fiddle Tunes I Either Did or Did Not Learn at Tractor Tavern (2002).<br> It was recorded by Roger Cooper on Going Back to Old Kentucky (1990) (Appears as "Coon Dog") and<br> Jim Herd on Old Time Ozark Fiddling (1991).<br>
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