“Walk Along John to Kansas” is a traditional old-time fiddle tune. It is associated with the Arizona fiddler Kenner C. Kartchner, who reported learning it from southern sources, and a version was also field-recorded in Texas in the 1940s. It is sometimes known as “Rabbit Where’s Your Mammy” and belongs to a broader family of “Walk Along John” tunes.
The tune is an old-time breakdown, the kind of brisk, danceable fiddle piece that anchors the string-band repertoire. Tunes like this one circulated regionally and picked up variant titles and settings as they passed from player to player.
This recording features the fiddler Tatiana Hargreaves, a player deeply versed in old-time fiddle, who included it on her album “Started Out to Ramble.”
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