Sycamore Shoals
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Sycamore Shoals" is an American reel in G major. The parts are played AABB.<br> The Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River, usually shortened to Sycamore Shoals,<br> is a rocky stretch of river rapids along the Watauga River near Elizabethton<br> ]in eastern Tennessee. By the 18th century it was a gathering plaxe and<br> hunting camp location of the Cherokee people.<br> In 1772, white settlers in the area established the Watauga Association,<br> one of the first constitutional governments west of the Appalachian Mountains.<br> In 1775, Richard Henderson and Daniel Boone negotiated the<br> Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, in which Henderson's Transylvania Company purchased<br> a large part of modern Kentucky and part of Tennessee from the Cherokee.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. His comment:<br> From John Lamancusa and the Jam at Gettysburg.<br> It was printed in Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> It was recorded by Palmer & Greg Loux on In Good Company (1998).<br>
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