Salt Creek
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Salt Creek", also known as "Salt River" <br> is an American reel in cut time and A Major/Mixolydian. The parts are played AABB.<br> "Salt Creek" is Kentucky mandolinist Bill Monroe's bluegrass re-titling of the older<br> American reel "Salt River" although there are reports that his record company, Decca,<br> was responsible for the title change as Monroe’s last single had been “Big Sandy River”.<br> The record company, the story goes, thought that confusion from the similarity in the<br> titles might interfere with sales so they insisted on changing ‘river’ to ‘creek’.<br> Monroe recorded the tune in the 1963, with Bill Keith on banjo.<br> The B part goes up to c' which requires a shift to third position on the fiddle, however,<br> the shifts up and down are easy if you shift up to play the a' notes preceding it by shifting<br> up into third position there. The shift back down is also easy because of the following<br> open string notes.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> It was recorded by Doc Watson, Bill Monroe and many others.<br> I learned it from Doc Watson's excellent flat-pick guitar version.<br> <br>
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