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