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Chicken Reel

By regina.joskow@excmusic.com

Chicken Reel
0:34
(Public Domain/Traditional)
QZR8K2560013
STUDIO MUSICIAN:
Tony Trischka banjo
UPC Code: 708857001927
CO-PRODUCED BY Lawson White
PRODUCED BY Tony Trischka
ARRANGEMENTS by Tony Trischka
ENGINEER: Eli Crews
MIXING:  Jim Robeson
MASTERING: Paul Blakemore
PHOTOGRAPHY: Greg Heisler
ART DIRECTION AND DESIGN: Nathan Golub and David Gorman
This novelty tune was composed and published in 1910 by Joseph M. Daly, with lyrics by Joseph Mittenthal. You owe it to yourself to listen
to Les Paul’s swingy and tonally delicious recording, replete with realistic chicken sounds. This is another of the very few tunes from the jams that Scruggs played solo. He just plays it once through, out of the “Sally Goodin” position, the same area of the banjo neck where the other poultry-themed tune on this album, “Old Cacklin’ Hen,” roosts. Earl finishes off with a great, snappy ending, one of many that he seems to have concocted on the spot.