Original list compiled by Paul Stamler. A "crooked tune" might have three sections, or an irregular number of beats, making it more difficult to use in a dance situation.
[vocals] Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin\ Queen of the Earth etc.\ Our Town\ Rounder Peggy Seeger\ The Wedding Dress Song\ Songs of Love\ Smithsonian/Folkways Lead Belly\ Midnight Special\ Midnight Special\ Rounder Emmylou Harris\ The Pearl\ Red Dirt Girl\ Nonesuch [remainder of original list] Lost Indian [really 8th of January]\ Alton Jones\ Trad. Fiddle Music of the Ozarks, v. 3\ Rounder [anything]\ Bill Graves\ Sugar in the Coffee\ MSOTFA Adieu False Heart\ Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & his Dixieliners\ Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & his Dixieliners\ County Adieu False Heart\ Red Mountain White Trash\ Chickens Don't Roost Too High\ Whoop It Up Avalon Quickstep\ Narmour & Smith\ Mississippi Breakdown\ County Banks of the Arkansas\ Bruce Greene\ Five Miles of Ellum Wood\ self Big Scioto\ Burl Hammons\ Augusta tape\ Billy in the Low Ground\ Art Galbraith\ Dixie Blossoms\ Rounder Blues in a Bottle\ Prince Albert Hunt\ Things Ain't Like They Used to Be, v. 1\ Yazoo Boat's Up the River\ John Jackson\ Don't Let Your Deal Go Down\ Arhoolie Boating Up Sandy\ Burl Hammons\ \ Boating Up Sandy\ Hillbillies\ A Fiddler's Convention in Mountain City, Tennessee\ County Broken Moon\ John Lilly\ Broken Moon\ Brown's Ferry Blues\ Delmore Bros.\ Brown's Ferry Blues\ County Brown's Ferry Blues\ Doc Watson\ On Stage\ Vanguard Brown's Ferry Blues\ New Lost City Ramblers\ Vol. 1, also 20 Years of Live Concerts\ Flying Fish Bunkyo\ Bart Vreeman\ Some o' Mine & Some I Like\ Self By the Mark\ Gillian Welch\ \ Byker Hill\ A. L. Lloyd\ Classic A. L. Lloyd\ Fellside Byker Hill\ Carthy-Swarbrick\ Life & Limb\ Topic/Green Linnet Caliope\ Lewis Bros.\ \ Camp Chase I\ French Carpenter, or anyone\ Elzics Farewell\ Kanawha Camp Chase I\ Mark Campbell\ Deep Roots\ Campbell Industries Camp Chase II\ Burl Hammons\ Hammons Family\ Library of Congress Charleston No. 1\ Gene Goforth\ Emminence Breakdown\ Rounder Cherokee Shuffle\ \ \ Clinch Mountain Backstep\ Ralph Stanley & Clinch Mtn. Boys\ Live in Japan\ Rebel Color Outside the Lines\ Bucky Halker\ Passion, Politics, Love\ Whitehouse Crooked John\ Kentucky String Ticklers\ Kentucky Mtn Music\ Yazoo Cupid's Garden\ Dave Swarbrick\ Flittin'\ Raven Damon's Winder (crooked 'Marmaduke's Hornpipe')\ Jilson Setters (J. W. Day)\ Library of Congress rec.? 1934\ Dance from Turkestan\ Unidentified\ Music of Afghanistan\ Unesco Dandy Lusk/Pucheon Floor\ Don Pedi\ The Hog Went Through the Fence Yoke and All\ Class IV Doc Brown's Dream\ Bob Holt\ Got a Little Home to Go To\ Rounder Don't Let Your Deal Go Down\ Mike Seeger\ Music from True Vine\ Mercury Down at the End of Memory Lane\ Wade Mainer\ From the Maple to the Hill\ Old Homestead Down in Little Egypt (?)\ Chirps Smith\ Down in Little Egypt\ Vigortone Downfall of Paris\ Charlie Acuff\ \ East Tennessee Blues\ Fred Price\ Old-Time Music at Clarence Ashley's\ S/F Elie's Waltz (a crooked waltz!)\ Chirps Smith\ Down in Little Egypt\ Vigortone Emminence Breakdown\ Gene Goforth\ Emminence Breakdown\ Rounder False Lover John [Lady Isabel]\ Kevin Mitchell\ \ Fanny Lee Blues\ Wesley Wallace\ Piano Blues\ RBF Fire on the Mountain\ Ed Haley\ Grey Eagle\ Rounder Fire on the Mountain\ Fred Price (w. Doc Watson & Clint Howard)\ Old-Timey Concert\ Vanguard Fire on the Mountain\ Fuzzy Mountain String Band\ Summer Oaks and Porch\ Rounder Fire on the Mountain\ Gaither Carlton\ \ Fire on the Mountain\ Henry Reed\ \ Fire on the Mountain\ Red Headed Fiddlers\ Dance Music: Breakdowns and Waltzes\ Library of Congress First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, The\ Peggy Seeger\ The Folkways Years\ Smithsonian/Folkways Five Miles from Town\ Don Pedi\ The Hog Went Through The Fence Yoke and All\ Class IV Flannery's Dream\ John Hartford\ Wild Hog in the Red Brush\ Rounder Flowers of Edinburgh\ Art Galbraith\ Dixie Blossoms\ Rounder Flowers of Edinburgh\ Howard Marshall\ \ Flowers of Edinburgh [Marshall version]\ Bruce Molsky \ \ Rounder Fogarty's Cove\ Stan Rogers\ Fogarty's Cove\ Barn Swallow Fort Smith Breakdown\ Luke Hignight's Ozark Strutters\ Echoes of the Ozarks\ County Fort Smith Breakdown\ The Wilders\ \ Fox Hunt, The\ Brass Monkey\ See How It Runs\ Topic Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate, The\ Peter Bellamy\ The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate\ Topic Garbage Man Blues\ Milton Brown\ Bluebird 78, perhaps bawdy?\ Stash Get It Right\ Jaime Michaels\ Angelus\ Getting Upstairs\ John Salyer\ Home Recordings 1941-1942\ Berea Ghost Song\ Peter Bellamy\ The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate\ Topic Girl on the Greenbriar Shore\ Carter Family\ \ Girl on the Greenbriar Shore\ New Lost City Ramblers\ \ Give the Fiddler a Dram\ John Salyer\ Home Recordings 1941-1942\ Berea Going to the West\ Beverly Smith & Carl Jones\ Moving Lightly Through This World\ Artist's Issue Going to the West\ Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin\ Our Town\ Rounder Going to the West\ Peggy Seeger\ The Folkways Years\ Smith/Folk Got a Little Home to Go To\ Bob Holt\ Got a Little Home to Go To\ Rounder Grandma's Rag\ Taylor, Moore & Burnett\ Kentucky Mountain Music\ Yazoo Grandmammy Look at Sam\ Gene Goforth\ Emminence Breakdown\ Rounder Grigsby's Hornpipe (Crooked?)\ Eck Robertson\ Cowboy Fiddler\ County Haley's Bonaparte's Retreat\ Ed Haley\ Grey Eagle\ Rounder Haley's Bonaparte's Retreat\ Mark Campbell\ Deep Roots\ Campbell Hard Time Blues\ Bessie Smith\ Vol. 5\ Frog Hell Amongst the Yearlings\ Ralph Blizard\ Old Time Music on the Air\ Rounder Hell and Scissors\ Jilson Setters (J. W. Day)\ Library of Congress rec., 1937\ Hello Stranger\ Carter Family\ Country Music Hall of Fame\ MCA Hickory Jack\ Luther Strong\ Library of Congress rec.\ Horseshoe Bend\ Stripling Bros.\ Complete Recorded Works\ Document Hot Corn, Cold Corn (LANGUAGE)\ Martin & Roberts\ Music of Kentucky, v. 2\ Yazoo Huldy in the Sinkhole\ Don Pedi\ The Hog Went...\ Class IV In the Shadow of the Pines\ Kelly Harrell\ Vol. 2\ Document Indian Squaw\ Ed Haley\ Forked Deer\ Rounder Jake Leg Wobble\ Ray Bros.\ Mississippi Breakdown\ County Jeff Sturgeon\ Bruce Molsky\ Poor Man's Dream\ Rounder Jeff Sturgeon\ John Saylor\ Home Recordings 1941-1942\ Appalachian Center Jenny on the Railroad\ Carter Bros. & Son\ Mississippi Breakdown\ County John Cole\ Bruce Molsky\ Poor Man's Dream\ Rounder John Henry\ Fred Cockerham\ Clawhammer Banjo (?)\ County Johnson Girls\ Boarding Party\ Tis Our Sailing Time\ Folk-Legacy Junker's Blues\ Jack Dupree\ Live at Montreux\ Atl., Collectables Kennedy Rag\ Stripling Brothers\ Complete Recorded Works, v. 1\ Document Kentucky Winder\ Bruce Greene\ Fifty Miles of Ellum Wood\ Artist's Issue Last Chance\ Hobart Smith\ Blue Ridge Legacy\ Rounder Last of Sizemore\ Bruce Greene\ Five Miles of Ellum Wood\ Artist's Issue Last of Sizemore\ Luther Strong\ Library of Congress rec.\ Last Shot Got Him\ Mississippi Possum Hunters\ Mississippi Breakdown\ County Lay Your Good Money Down\ Art Galbraith\ Trad. Fiddle Music of the Ozarks, v. 3\ Rounder Little Carpenter\ New Lost City Ramblers\ Vol. II\ Smithsonian/Folkways Little Rose\ Wilson Douglas\ Right Hand Fork of Rush Creek\ Rounder Little Waltzing Country Song\ Trevor Mills\ Karaoke Cowboy\ Artist's Issue Little Whiskey\ Nile Wilson\ Tie-Hacker Hoedown\ MSOTFA Lost Child\ Stripling Bros.\ Complete Recorded Works\ Document Lost Indian\ Chirps Smith\ Down in Little Egypt\ Vigortone Melvin's Bonaparte's Retreat\ Mark Campbell\ Deep Roots\ Campbell Mexican Blues\ Pete Seeger\ Goofing-Off Suite\ Smith/Folk Mississippi Sawyer\ Clark Kessinger\ Complete Recorded Works\ Document Mississippi Sawyer\ Earl Johnson & his Clodhoppers\ Old-Time String Band Classics\ County No. 29\ Wesley Wallace\ St. Louis Barrelhouse Piano\ Document No. 29\ Wesley Wallace\ The Essential Piano Blues\ Classic Blues Off She Goes\ Albion Band\ Compleat Dancing Master\ Island Old Aunt Jenny with her Night Cap On\ Don Pedi\ The Hog Went Through the Fence Yoke and All\ Class IV Old Charlie Deckard\ Bob Holt\ Got a Little Home to Go To\ Rounder Old Christmas Morning\ Wilson Douglas\ Art of Traditional Fiddle\ Rounder Old Red\ Chirps Smith\ Down in Little Egypt\ Vigortone Old Stillhouse, The\ Bob Holt\ Got a Little Home to Go To\ Rounder Old Tobacco Hills\ Don Pedi\ The Hog Went Through the Fence Yoke and All\ Class IV Old-Time Sally Ann\ Tommy Jarrell, Mike Seeger et al\ Third Annual Farewell Reunion\ Rounder One Morning in May\ Blind Uncle Gaspard\ Anthology of American Folk Music\ Smithsonian/Folkways Orphan Girl\ Gillian Welch\ \ Peacock Follows the Hen medley\ Pat Talbert\ Peacocks and Angels\ Celtic Trader Pigeon on the Gate\ Doc White\ \ Promsed Land [banjo version]\ Joel Mabus\ Promised Land\ Fossil Queen Eleanor's Confession, v. 3\ MacColl-Seeger\ Blood & Roses, v. 3\ Blackthorne Queen of the Earth, Child of the Sky\ Eddon Hammons\ Eddon Hammons Collection\ Sound Archives Ranger's Hornpipe\ Stripling Brothers\ Complete Recorded Works, v. 1\ Document Red River Jig\ Andrew Roblin\ Perilous Pursuit\ Roll and Tumble\ Howling Wolf\ \ Sales Tax Toddle\ Richard Greene & Grass is Greener\ Sales Tax Toddle\ Rebel Sally Went a-Hunting\ Bob Holt\ Got a Little Home to Go To\ Rounder Sandy River\ Oscar Wright\ \ Santa Anna's Retreat\ Fuzzy Mountain String Band\ Summer Oaks and Porch\ Rounder Shelvin' Rock\ Ernie Carpenter\ Elk River Blues\ Augusta Heritage Shelvin' Rock\ French Carpenter\ Elzics Farewell\ Kanawha Shelvin' Rock\ Mark Campbell\ Deep Roots\ Campbell Ship in the Clouds\ Andy Cahan et al\ Classic Old-Time Music\ Smith/Folk Siberian Stomp\ John Kirkpatrick\ Three in a Row\ Free Reed Soapsuds Over the Fence\ James Bryan\ Lookout Blues\ Rounder Sovay\ A.L. Lloyd\ Classic A.L. Lloyd\ Fellside Step Dance Tunes\ John Kirkpatrick Band\ Welcome to Hell\ Story the Crow Told Me, The\ Carolina Buddies\ The Story the Crow Told Me\ Yazoo Story the Crow Told Me, The\ John Cohen\ Stories the Crow Told Me\ Acoustic Disc Sugar in the Gourd\ Edden Hammons\ Edden Hammons Collection, v. 2\ West Virginia Univ. Sugar in the Gourd\ Nile Wilson\ Tie-Hacker Hoedown\ MSOTFA Take Me Out to the Ball\ The Skeletons\ \ Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Take\ Steve Mote\ Steve Mote Miscellany\ Private tape Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase\ Norman Blake\ Roots Music; Lighthouse on the Shore\ Rounder Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase\ Old Hollow String Band\ \ Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase\ Vance's Tennessee Breakdowners\ Fiddler's Convention in Mountain City, Tennessee\ County Texas\ Henry Reed\ \ Texas\ Hollow Rock String Band\ \ That's All Right, Mama\ Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup\ \ Bluebird Three Forks of Cheat\ Burl Hammons\ Hammons Family\ Library of Congress Three Forks of Cheat\ Edden Hammons\ Edden Hammons Collection\ Univ. of Virginia Tucker's Barn\ Gaither Carlton\ Watson Family Tradition\ Rounder Tucker's Old Barn\ Bayard Ray\ \ Tucker's Old Barn\ Ledford String Band\ Ledford String Band\ Rounder Walking in the Parlor\ Dr. D. D. Hollis\ Alabama Stringbands\ Document Wild Rose of the Mountain\ J.P. & Annadeene Fraley\ Wild Rose of the Mountain\ Rounder Wild Rose of the Mountain\ Jay Ungar & Lyn Hardy\ Jay & Lyn\ Philo Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone\ Carter Family\ Anchored in Love\ Rounder Wounded Hoosier (like "Queen of...")\ Mark Campbell\ Deep Roots\ Campbell Yellow Gal\ George Noble\ Chicago Piano\ Document Yellow Gal\ Thirty Below\ Airs Tordus\ Yellow Gals\ Abrams & Mote\ Abrams & Mote\ self Yellow Gals\ Ron Hughey\ Country Fiddling Ozarks Style\ Am. Heritage Yew Piney Mountain\ French Carpenter\ Elzics Farewell\ Kanawha You Are My Flower\ Carter Family\ Country Music Hall of Fame\ MCA You Are My Flower\ Mike Seeger et al [inst]\ Second Annual Farewell Reunion\ Mercury
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