Walking in the Parlor (2)
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Walking in the Parlor", also known as "Trude Evans" is an American reel in cut<br> time in D Major.<br> The parts are played AB (Silberberg), ABB (Brody) or ABA'A'B'B' (Krassen).<br> A melody with minstrel-era origins although some hear distinct echoes of the<br> English morris dance melody “Shepherd’s Hey.” It was widely disseminated in the<br> Upland South and Piedmont regions, the Deep South and MidWest, propelled by early<br> 78 RPM-era recordings by D. Dix Hollis (1924) and The Hill Billies (1926). The<br> tune was mentioned in an account as having been played at a LaFollette, northeast<br> Tennessee fiddlers' contest in 1931. The title (as "Walk in the Parlor") appears<br> in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountians fiddle tunes compiled by Vance Randolph.<br> This version of "Walking in the Parlor" was recorded in New York City in<br> October, 1926, by the North Carolina/Virginia group The Hill Billies<br> (also known as Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters), with Tony Alderman and Fred Roe<br> on fiddles for this cut (Charlie Bowman, another famed fiddler with the group,<br> played banjo).<br> This version is from the Highwoods String Band. It is very different from the<br> version played by Tommy Jarrell.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> It was printed in<br> Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Davis's Devil's Box, vol. 23, No. 4, Winter 1989,<br> Krassen's Masters of Old Time Fiddling (1983),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002) and<br> Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980).<br> It was recorded by John Hilt (Va.) on Swope's Knobs,<br> The Hill Billies/Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters on Complete Recorded Works in<br> Chronological Order, vol. 1,<br> Wilson Douglas on The Right Hand Fork of Rush's Creek (1975),<br> Lee Hammons on Shaking Down the Acorns,<br> Highwoods String Band on Fire on the Mountain,<br> Oscar and Eugene Wright on Old Time Fiddle and Guitar Music from West Virginia and<br> Eugene Wright on Rounder Fiddle (1990).<br>
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