Spring Creek Gal
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Spring Creek Gal", also known as "Spring Creek" is an American reel in cut time<br> and D Major. The parts are played AA'BB'. The tune is crooked: there are only six<br> measures in the A part.<br> Alabama fiddler James Bryan credits his influential version of the tune to<br> Al Murphy, whom he heard playing the tune with his band in the early 1980's.<br> Murphy himself remarks that he learned the tune in the late 1979's or early 1980's<br> from mandolin player John Purk (Toledo, Iowa). In turn, Purk learned it from<br> fiddler Charlie Truitt, from northern Missouri.<br> The banjo tablature is from John Letscher. He gets a lot of the open 1st string<br> notes with alternate string pull-offs. He also provides a second version of<br> the B part that is an octave higher.<br> It was printed in Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995) and<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> It was recorded by Bob Carlin on Banging and Sawing (1985) and<br> Carol Denny & Jim Nelson on Maggots in the Sheep Hide (2009).<br>
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