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Cattle in the Cane

Traditional

Style
Bluegrass
Tradition
Texas fiddle
Form
Breakdown
Key
A Mixolydian
Level
4
Played on
Fiddle

In the public domain. Source

Music

90bpm

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History

Texas fiddler Captain M.J. Bonner recorded it in the 1920s as "Yearlings in the Canebreak." Bonner, born in 1847, had served as a Confederate cavalry courier, and on January 4, 1923, he played on WBAP in Fort Worth for the first radio barn dance broadcast. Eck Robertson played it for Mike Seeger in 1963 under the title "Hell Amongst the Yearlings." Fiddlers often play a plucked passage in it.

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