Katy Hill

Tommy Jarrell thought it grew out of "Piney Woods Gal," and Galax fiddler Eck Dunford told Elizabeth Lomax in 1941 that "Piney Woods Gal" was its real name. Its twin is "Sally Johnson." Mark Wilson believes the two once had quite different first parts, and that Grand Ole Opry fiddlers trimmed them down as they played them faster and faster for show.

North Georgia fiddler Lowe Stokes made it his signature piece and recorded it in 1928 with Riley Puckett. Fiddlin' Arthur Smith played it on the Opry, and Bill Monroe recorded it in 1940, which made it a bluegrass standard.