Run Down Boot
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Run Down Boot" is an American reel in cut time and D Major.<br> It is an Illinois tune collected from Walter "Pete" Priest (1900 - 1991) of Paradise<br> (in the east-central part of the state), collected by Gary Harrison in 1971. Priest<br> was aged 71 at the time. Priest was known regionally as a dance fiddler and had learned<br> to play at age eight. He learned the tune from his fiddler father in Kentucky.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher who says it was Learned from John Lamancusa<br> who had it from Chirps Smith.<br> It was recorded by Pete Priest on Dear Old Illinois (2007) (various artists) and<br> Indian Creek Delta Boys on Indian Creek Delta Boys (1976) and<br> Traditional Music of Illinois (1991).<br> It was printed in<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br>
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