Rocky Pallet
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Rocky Pallet", also known as "Peas and Cornbread", "Possum and Taters" or "Rocky Palace"<br> is an American reel in cut time and C Major. The parts are played AABBA'A"BB (Phillips),<br> AA'BB (Kaufman) or AA'BB'CC' (Lamancusa).<br> The tune is sometimes played with a third strain, sometimes as a two-part tune.<br> Most modern versions stem from the north Georgia band The Skillet Lickers’ 78 RPM record,<br> recorded in Atlanta for Columbia records just before Halloween, on Oct. 19th, 1927.<br> The Skillet Lickers also recorded the tune as part of their "Possum Hunt on Stump House<br> Mountain", where "Rocky Pallet" is introduced as "Possum and Taters".<br> The reel also pops up in other Skillet Lickers recordings: it was one of the tunes (as "Peas<br> and Cornbread") played on the Skillet Licker's popular humorous "Corn Licker Still in Georgia"<br> record series (recorded in fourteen parts on seven 78 RPM records between 1927 and 1930)<br> and (as "Blackeyed Peas and Cornbread") was recorded in 1934.<br> "Rocky Palace” is north Georgia fiddler Earl Johnson’s (1886-1965) somewhat distanced version<br> of the tune, recorded in November, 1927, just a couple of weeks after the Skillet Lickers<br> recorded their version.<br> "Rocky Pallet" is similar to the "Billy in the Lowground" family<br> of tunes.<br> The banjo tablature is from John Letscher who says "This is after The Orpheus Supertone's<br> version and close to the original".<br> It was printed in Kaufman's Beginning Old Time Fiddle (1977),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> It was recorded by The Corndrinkers on The Corndrinkers,<br> The Skillet Lickers (1929) (78 RPM), and<br> The Skillet Lickers: Old Time Fiddle Tunes and Songs from North Georgia vol. 2 (1973. Reissue),<br> The Skillet Lickers, vol. 4,<br> Earl Johnson on Earl Johnson vol. 2 1927-1931 (As "Rocky Palace") and<br> Earl Johnson's Dixie Entertainers (Nov., 1929).<br> <br>
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