Transcribed from Rayna Gellert's playing on her album with Susie Goehring, Starch & Iron. Key of A, fiddle tuned to AEAC#.
I found this to be a very deceptively simple tune. In my first transcription, although done very carefully while listening to Rayna's playing at half-speed, I thought I had nailed it. Wrong. But I think working with that first rendition was a necessary stepping stone for me to be able to tune into what she's really doing... I worked through it again, and think I cracked it this time. It's quite different from any bowing I've done before (the backbeat accents occur in unexpected parts of slurs, etc.), but after burning it into my nervous system and getting the speed up, it makes sense when I play it along with Rayna and is a lot of fun.
For the purpose of playing dances, I may play the B part as two identical parts as annotated above, without the first line of the A part repeating for the last line of the B part (so the parts are more distinct to the dancers). To play it as Rayna does, it's a simple matter to reuse the first line of the A part for the last line of the B part.
Comments, suggestions and/or corrections are always welcome! Write me at: doug at oldtimefiddle dot us
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