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The Crook Bros. recorded this on an out-of-print LP called "Old Timers of the Grand Old Opry," and it was listed on the liner notes as "Instrumental." To my ear their take on it sounds more like a version of "Lost Indian" than "Sally Ann." I feel that the source of the version we hear today at fiddlers conventions originally was Richmond fiddler Harold Hausenfluck who used to play a lot at Galax, Independence, Chilhowie, Pulaski & many VA conventions in the 70s & 80s. Harold took the Crook's "Instrumental" and transformed it into what we now recognize as "Crook Brothers Breakdown" by having his band lean on the minor chord. It's on a cassette I have of him at Galax in the 70s. Tim
Donley, who you hear on the mp3 on the Fiddlers Grove site, was a protege of Harold's. That's definitely a great version, but I must point out that the Crook Bros.' "Instrumental" did not have clawhammer banjo, but rather a kind of pre-bluegrass 3-fingerpicking common in middle TN (and many other places in the South, prior to the 1970s).
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RE: Crook Brothers Breakdown
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May 8 2009, 2:45 PM EDT
"Lonesome Lefty's Scratchy Attic blog has a zipped file of the Sam & Kirk McGee/Crook Brothers "Opry Old Timers" album, with a bonus track -- Lost Indian, which Lefty says "is from the same session as this album, and was first featured on the Starday LP "Fiddler's Hall Of Fame", SLP 209 in 1963." See http://scratchyattic.blogspot.com/2008/11/opry-old-timers-sam-kirk-mcgee-crook.html." Thanks, that's the old LP I was thinking of! The McGees and Crook Bros band played top notch old-time dance music. They had driving fiddle, harmonica, and fantastic banjo in a style we don't hear enough of these days where you either play bluegrass OR old-time. I'd call this old-time!
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