I first heard Redican’s Trip to Appalachia on Hog-Eyed Man‘s 2018 CD “Old World Music of the Southern Appalachians“, and was reminded of it more recently when they included it on their CD “Across the Sea” last summer. It’s a squirrelly tune, and while this transcription makes sense to me, other people have transcribed it differently. I suppose the difference is whether you hear the transition between the two parts as belonging to the first or second part.

This started out as a tune called The Galway Reel, or perhaps sometimes The Ironing Board, composed by Irish-American fiddler Larry Redican (1908–1975):

Jason Cade of Hog-Eyed Man reworked it as an old-time tune by moving it from G to A (it might be possible to play this in standard tuning, but I have only tried it in cross-A, AEae), making it crooked where the original sounds crooked but I think isn’t, actually, and essentially composing a new second part for it. I’m not hearing a whole lot of similarities between their respective second parts, anyway:

The end result is something that has recognizably been Appalachian-ized from something Irish, which is how we got a lot of our traditional Appalachian fiddle tunes to begin with. This one just happens to have made the trip more recently.