Dixie Hoedown is a great tune! (I had no idea that Jesse was as good a fiddler as he is; the original recording was twin fiddles with Jesse and (I think) Vassar Clements.)
The tune has also gotten into the old time tradition; a version of it was collected from Bob Douglas of Chattanooga (born 1900 and still alive in 1995!) and recorded by the Red Mountain White Trash. As can be said of so many other old time tunes, "it's the same, but different." You can't call it "simpler" . . . April Verch of Ontario also recorded a version; it's more like the Bob Douglas version than the original. Go figure.