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Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
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Item Title
Hell among the Yearlings
Alternate Title(s)
Hell amongst the Yearlings
Author/Creator
Collector: Jabbour, Alan
Performer: Reed, Henry; fiddle
Created/Published
October 28, 1967
Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Virginia (Giles County)
Notes
"Hell among the Yearlings" (sometimes known in bowdlerized forms such as "Rounding Up the Cattle") is a tune of the Upper South. It was recorded by West Virginian Clark Kessinger on an early hillbilly record with an irregular first strain that lingers on the high A and requires two extra beats. Nearly all current versions in bluegrass style or in contest fiddling circles perpetuate this irregularity, but Henry Reed's set has the normal number of bars and beats.
Title change: The title appeared in the fieldnotes as "Hell among the Yearlin's."
Key: D
Meter: 4/4
Strains: 2 (high-low, 4-4)
Rendition: 1r-2r-1
Phrase Structure: ABCD QRQS (aba'c defb qrss' qrst)
Compass: 15
Spoken: ALAN JABBOUR: I know what that is./HENRY REED: Yeah. You remember that one./ALAN JABBOUR: Yeah, "Hell amongst . . ."/HENRY REED: "Hell among the Yearlings."
Recording chronology: 173
Related Tune(s): Rounding Up the Cattle
Duration: 34 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 5379 reel 3B, AFS 13705B:21
Digital ID
afcreed 13705b21
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcreed.13705b21
Related Audio
Hell among the Yearlings [AFS 13035a35]
Hell among the Yearlings [transcription] [Transcribed]