Kansas City Star (May 13, 1914):

“In the dances before the Civil War, the repertoire of the [Indiana] country dance fiddler was made up of ‘Hell on the Wabash,’ ‘Old Zip Coon,’ ‘The Stump-Tailed Dog,’ ‘The Devil’s Dream,’ ‘One-Eyed Riley,’ and ‘Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself.’”


Indianapolis Sunday Star (Nov. 8, 1925)::

“‘Andy’ Will Hamblen [ca1845-1920, of Brown Co.]…one of the real old-time fiddlers….He could recall and play from memory 300… ‘tunes.’…includ[ing] Ricket’s, Durang’s, Fisher’s and Mountain hornpipes, Devil’s Dream, Arkansas Traveler, Leather Breeches, The Devil and the Bullfrog Dance, Miss McLeod’s Reel, Saint Patrick’s Day in the Morning, Indian Eat the Woodchuck, St. Louis Waltz, Bonaparte’s Retreat and Caledonian March.”