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Stillhouse/ Stillhouse Branch
Old-Time and Bluegrass Breakdown; Southeast US.
STILLHOUSE BRANCH. Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA, Ky. A Major. One of a family of tunes that includes "Brown's Dream" “Brownstream,” “Herve Brown’s Dream,” “Jimmy Johnson Pass That Jug Around the Hill,” “John Brown's Dream,” “Little Rabbit” “Pretty Little Gal,” “Table Mountain Road” and others.
The tune family is a common a popular one in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where it probably originated but has since been disseminated. North-east Kentucky fiddler Buddy Thomas recorded the tune under the “Stillhouse Branch” title but also knew the piece alternately as “Brown Stream,” a mondegreen for “Brown’s Dream.” He believed the “Brown Stream” title to refer to the stream of whiskey that emerges from a moonshine still, according to Mike Yates (2002). Rounder 0032, Buddy Thomas (Northeast Ky.) ‑ "Kitty Puss: Old Time Fiddle Music From Kentucky."
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