Tipping Back the Corn
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Jordan Wankoff
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Tippin' Back the Corn" is an American reel in A Major, composed by Jordan Wankoff <br> who is a fiddle teacher at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago.<br> Regarding the tune, Jordan says: "I made up Tippin' Back the Corn around 1997 in<br> the kitchen of my apartment on Haussen Ct. in Chicago. I remember it was a joyful<br> experience - almost like a discovery rather than a 'composition'. The tune itself<br> has been on quite a journey. As I remember, I played it for Chirps Smith one day<br> out at the Valparaiso dance in Northwest Indiana. Sometime later, I was at his<br> house in Grey's Lake, Illinois, and he asked me to record it for him in his basement<br> music library. A few years later it appeared on his 'Down in Little Egypt' album.<br> After that it just kind of spread. I don't know how many times it has been recorded<br> or posted on YouTube but all the fiddlers interpreted it a little differently, and<br> I was glad I hadn't written it out or recorded a 'definitive' version."<br> Many fiddlers begin the tune on the low part, but Jordan says he<br> conceived the high part to be the beginning of the tune. The title refers<br> to drinking corn whiskey. <br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher who picked it up from John Lamancusa and the<br> playing of Chirps Smith.<br> It was printed in Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br>
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