Shootin' Creek [2]
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Shootin' Creek (2)" is an American reel in cut time and D Major.<br> The parts are played AB.<br> Alan Jabbour collected the tune from the playing of Henry Reed (1884-1968) of Glen Lyn,<br> Giles County, southwest Virginia in 1966 (he noted it in 2/4 time). He says it is of the<br> simpler variety of tune popular with Blue Ridge area musicians, lending itself to performance<br> on the banjo.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher who says his source is mainly the Fuzzy Mountain<br> String Band’s playing.<br> From Jabbour's notes:<br> "Shooting Creek rises at the Blue Ridge, along the Floyd County-Franklin County line, and<br> flows down the eastern flank of the mountain into Franklin County in the Virginia Piedmont.<br> The hollow along Shooting Creek had a reputation for moonshining in the earlier twentieth<br> century.<br> Another tune entitled<br> "Shootin' Creek"<br> has been recorded along the creek itself and<br> in other locales in Virginia and West Virginia.<br> It is also different from the<br> "Shootin' Creek"<br> recorded by Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers.<br> Henry Reed's "Shooting Creek" is similar enough to be compared to the other tune, but<br> different enough that it cannot be flatly called a variant. His two sets of "Shooting Creek"<br> vary between themselves; this one ends by descending to a low D on the D-string in the second<br> strain, while the other (AFS 13037b01) ends the second strain on a D on the A-string, an<br> octave higher".<br>
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