Saddle Old Kate
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Saddle Old Kate" is an American reel in cut time and A Major. The parts are played AA’BB’.<br> The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains fiddle tunes compiled by<br> musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.<br> The melody seems to have had wide currency in the region.<br> Arkansas fiddler Jesse Wallace learned the version he plays from a fiddler named<br> Frank Watkins in the mid-1930’s.<br> Ozarks fiddler Fred Stoneking told the story of two brothers who resolved their<br> 1920’s dispute about how the tune should be played by calling one version<br> “Saddle Old Kate” and the other “Saddle Old Spike”.<br> Drew Beisswenger (2008) sees similarities to some versions of<br> “Got a Little Home to Go to"<br> while Mark Wilson sees resemblances in the<br> Skillet Lickers’ 1930's tune<br> “Don't You Cry My Honey”.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. His commenmts:<br> From the Fog Horn Duo. A fairly staight-forward tune with a lot of neat moves on the inside.<br> Title-wise Mike, Spike and Old Pait also get saddled.<br> It was printed in Beisswenger & McCann's Ozarks Fiddle Music (2008),<br> Clare Milliner & Walt Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011) and<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> It was recorded by Lonnie Robertson on Lonnie’s Breakdown (1996 Originally recorded 1976) and<br> Fred Stoneking on Saddle Old Spike - Fiddle Music From Missouri (1996 as "Saddle Old Spike").<br>
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