- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- Appalachian
- Form
- Reel
- Key
- A Mixolydian
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Fiddle
In the public domain. Source
Music
90bpm
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Chord chart
History
Alan Jabbour recorded this from Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia, in 1966. Jabbour's Hollow Rock String Band put it on record in 1967, and from there it spread so widely that it is now played in Europe as a typical American old-time tune.
The A part is mixolydian and the B part drops into minor. Fiddler Bill Hicks notes that "kitchen girl" was a term for an enslaved woman who worked in the kitchen. Rural kitchen dances may also lie behind the name.