Texas
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Texas", also known as "New Castle" is an old-time breakdown in A Mixolydian.<br> The parts are played AB (Silberberg) or AABB (Phillips).<br> It is a crooked tune (the first strain has a long measure before the endings, the second<br> strain is only six measures long with another long measure,<br> from fiddler Henry Reed, of Glen Lyn, Virginia who played it in AEae fiddle tuning.<br> Alan Jabbour dubbed it "Texas" because Reed told him he had no name for it but learned<br> it from 'a fellow either going to Texas or from Texas'. At some point Reed told Jabbour<br> the man who played the tune was a Mr. Drummond.<br> The tune was popularized under the<br> title “Texas” by Jabbour through his playing with the Hollow Rock String Band. However,<br> when the folklorist later visited Reed the old fiddler said "with certainty" that the<br> correct title was "New Castle", referring to the county seat of Craig County, Virginia.<br> Jabbour believes he may have misheard or misunderstood the “Texas” title.<br> Fiddler Bertram Levy played the tune as "The Road to Texas", perhaps after Jabbour’s title.<br> I have used the "Texas" title to avoid confusion with the Dancing Master tune<br> "Newcastle".<br> Folklorist Gerald Milnes says West Virginia variants were played only along the southern<br> border and in the south central portion of the state.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> It was recorded by David Bragger on Big Fancy (2015).<br>
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