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Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
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Item Title
Cabin Creek
Alternate Title(s)
Barlow Knife
Author/Creator
Collector: Jabbour, Alan
Performer: Reed, Henry; fiddle
Created/Published
August 27, 1966
Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Virginia (Giles County)
Notes
Cabin Creek, from which this three-part tune takes its name, is a creek that flows into the Kanawha River above Charleston, West Virginia. It was the site of a famous strike in the annals of West Virginia coal, but this tune may evoke the creek generally rather than the battles fought there. It is of that variety of tune, popular in West Virginia, which begins at the top of the tune's compass and cascades downward by degrees--like a creek, one might think. Another name for this tune is "Barlow Knife," and it is often played under that title as a banjo piece with some associated lyrics. Henry Reed said he learned this tune from Mr. Underwood, who had moved from Franklin County to Monroe County, and described it as an old Franklin County piece.
Key: G
Meter: 4/4
Strains: 3 (high-middle-low, 2-2-2)
Rendition: 1r-2r-3r-1r-2r-3r-1r-2r-3r-1r-2r-3r-tag
Phrase Structure: AB QR UV (abcd qrq's uvus)
Compass: 9
Spoken: ALAN JABBOUR: There, you got it now.
Recording chronology: 055
Duration: 1 minute, 39 seconds
Subject
Breakdowns
Reels
Fiddle tunes
Instrumentals--fiddle
Ethnography
Music
United States--Virginia--Giles County--Glen Lyn
Object Type
Medium
sound recording
Language
English
Call Number
AFC LWO 5031 reel 5A, AFS 13035A:44
Digital ID
afcreed 13035a44
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcreed.13035a44