"Shootin' Creek" is an American reel in cut time and A Mixolydian. The parts are played AB (Krassen, Lamancusa, Silberberg), AABB (Brody) or AA'BB' (Phillips). Shooting Creek as a quick-flowing stream that rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains along the Floyd/Franklin County line and flows down eastwardly through Franklin County in the Virginia Piedmont. The hollow along the creek had a reputation as a locale for moonshining in the early 20th century; it was much favored by bootleggers and became notorious during Prohibition. This tune is similar to the "Shootin' Creek [2]" collected from Henry Reed. It is different from the "Shootin' Creek [3]" recorded by Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers. It was printed in Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983), Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021), Kaufman's Beginning Old Time Fiddle (1977), Krassen's Masters of Old Time Fiddling (1983), Person's A Collection of Popular Airs (1889)(appears as “Walk Around”), Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002). It was recorded by Jabbour, Thompson and Bradley on Sandy's Fancy, J.W. Thatcher (1939), Oscar Wright, Fuzzy Mountain String Band on Fuzzy Mountain String Band (1972) and Sam Connor on Old Originals, Vol. 1 (1978).