Re: Most popular trad tunes?
I've heard Cherokee Shuffle, which is closely allied to Lost Indian, attributed to Tommy Jackson, who included it on an LP of square dance fiddle tunes, probably in the 1950's. Dunno if that's true.
To the tunes listed above, I'd add some popular Northeastern tunes, like Maple Sugar, Road to Boston, Barnburner's Reel, Little Burnt Potato, Jenny Lind Polka, Joys of Quebec, Staten Island Hornpipe, Rose Tree, Over the Waterfall (not really Northeastern), Devil's Dream, and St. Ann's Reel, though I believe the latter is a fairly recent Graham Townsend Canadian tune.
Some other British Isles tunes that are quite popular here -- other than the more specialized "Irish/Celtic trad" repertoire -- are Scotland the Brave, Boys of Blue Hill, White Cockade, Girl I Left Behind Me, Garryowen, Rakes of Mallow, Irish Washerwoman, Haste To the Wedding, and a variety of hornpipes: Off To California, Rickett's Hornpipe, Harvest Home, Rights of Man.
I've stuck to the more traditional, rather than the composed/attributed 19th/20th century tunes that many fiddlers enjoy playing: Down Yonder, Alabama Jubilee, Red Wing, Listen To the Mockingbird, Colored (Southern) Aristocracy, Tennessee Waltz, and such-like. The line between "trad" and just "old," and not even that "old" (cf. Ashokan Farewell) gets blurred all to hell.
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