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That Tumble Down Shack in Athlone

from Gone Boy by Brett Ratliff

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“That Tumble Down Shack in Athlone” is an early 20th century popular song in the "Irish genre," composed by Alma Sanders and Hans von Holstein, better known as Monte Carlo, with lyrics by Richard Pascoe. I found when I was looking for a song that used the common East Kentucky phrase “ramshackled shack." Despite the misrepresentation that all Appalachian are "Scots-­‐Irish," I was struck by the connection these two songs shared.

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from Gone Boy, released November 1, 2017

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Brett Ratliff Fayetteville, Arkansas

Brett Ratliff is a 2022 United States Artists Fellow in Traditional Arts. Ratliff teaches and performs traditional Appalachian musical styles and repertoire both at home and abroad, and has contributed to more than a dozen recordings, including for Smithsonian Folkways, June Appal Recordings, The Kentucky Center for Traditional Music, Old Town School of Folk Music, and The Oxford American. ... more

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