"Rush and the Pepper" is an American reel in D major. It was collected by Garry Harrison and company in Illinois from Jesse James Abbott of rural Toledo, Illinois in the mid 1970s. Mr Abbott said he had learned it as a boy in Missouri and he had turned 82 in 1975. This is an example of a single-source fiddle tune that has spread out. The initial recording was by the Indian Delta Creek Boys in the mid 1970s. This has recently been reissued. The banjo tab is by John Letscher. The tune was printed in Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021), It was recorded by the Indian Creek Delta Boys on Indian Creek Delta Boys (1976).