Tater Patch
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Tater Patch" is an American reel in cut time and A Mixolydian.<br> It is played in either AEae or Standard fiddle tuning. The parts are played AAB (Brody),<br> AABBB (Johnson, Phillips).<br> It is a Blue Ridge Mountain regional dance piece.<br> Mt. Airy, western North Carolina, fiddler Tommy Jarrell related to musician and folklorist<br> Mike Seegar:<br> There was a fellow by the name of Ike Leonard...he was a working in the potato patch<br> and this tune come in his mind. And he just throwed down what ever he was a doing and<br> went to the house and got his banjo and played it. It must have happened about 1910...<br> before 1920. I got it through (his uncle) Charlie Barnett Lowe...along in the '20's.<br> Charlie Barnett's brother married Ike Leonard's widow so I got the straight story to<br> 'The Tater Patch Tune'... the way it was told to me now.<br> In The Portland Collection the tune is attributed to Jarrell’s frequent playing<br> partner banjo player Charlie Lowe, with the same story). This latter attribution comes<br> from Mt. Airy region fiddler Ernest East.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Johnson's Kitchen Musician No. 2: Old-Timey Fiddle Tunes (1982 - revised 1988 & 2003),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Songer's Portland Collection (1997) and<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> It was recorded by Tommy Jarrell on Pickin' on Tommy's Porch (1984) and<br> Highwoods String Band on Dance All Night (1975).<br> <br>
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