Black Mountain Rag

One of the most popular fiddle tunes in modern history. The piece became popular in the late 1930's. It was claimed by fiddler Leslie Keith, who said he wrote it in the early 1940's after taking a little bit of the west Alabama group The Stripling Brothers recording The Lost Child, and a little of two or three of the Carter Family's tunes. He named it "Black Mountain Blues" after the name of a mountain in Cumberland County, Tenn., however, Lost Child is the basic melody for the tune, although some credit Lost Indian as the ancestral tune. Curly Fox changed the name from "Black Mountain Blues" to "Black Mountain Rag" on his 1947 recording for King.
Played on a Fender Deluxe 8 Stringmaster.