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Cherokee Shuffle

Traditional

Style
Bluegrass
Tradition
Old-time and bluegrass, from 'Lost Indian'
Form
Breakdown
Key
A
Level
4
Played on
Fiddle

In the public domain. Source

Music

90bpm

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History

It started as "Lonesome Indian," which fiddler Tommy Magness recorded in D in the 1930s. Tommy Jackson is credited with moving it up to A and adding a new second part, and that version became "Cherokee Shuffle." The Magness tune lived on as "Lost Indian," and some older fiddlers in North Carolina and Virginia took Jackson's new part and grafted it back onto the old tune.

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