Sally Johnson

Music written by: [Traditional]
Original music written by: [Traditional]
Adapted from: Katy Hill written by [Traditional]
Comments: Old-time, breakdown fiddle tune. Almost identical to Katy Hill, especially in modern versions the name is used interchangeably for essentially the same tune. Sally Johnson was the name used in Texas and surrounding areas. Some fiddlers perform both to highlight their slight distinctions. It's arguable whether "Sally Johnson" was derived from "Katy Hill" or vice versa, but "Sally Johnson" is being set up as an adaptation of "Katy Hill" to capture their commonality.
There is also another tune called "Sally Ann Johnson" that is unrelated, but the titles sometimes are mistakenly used for performances of the other.
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Katy Hill written by [Traditional] instrumental

	Title	Performer	Release date	Info
i	Katy Hill	Allen Sisson - John F. Burckhardt at the Piano	1926
i	Katy Hill	Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys	1941
i	Katy Hill	Tommy Jackson	November 1953
i	Katy Hill	The Lilly Brothers	1964
i	Katy Hill	Mack Magaha & Buck Trent	March 1966	Live
i	Katy Hill	Buffalo Mt. Boys	June 22, 1967
i	Katy Hill	Red Smiley and The Blue Grass Cutups	July 1967
i	Sally Johnson - Katy Hill	Bill Long [US2]	1967	Live Medley
i	Katy Hill	Joe Greene [US2]	1969
i	Katie Hill	Cyril Stinnett	1969
i	Katie Hill	The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover	1971	Live
i	Katy Hill	High Country	1972
i	Katie Hill	Dwight Lamb - Elvin Campbell	1972
i	Katy Hill	Ralph Meadows	1973
i	Katy Hill	John Ashby & The Free State Ramblers	1974
i	Katy Hill	Kenny Baker [US2]	1975
i	Katy Hill	Glen Smith and The Mountain State Pickers	1975
i	Katy Hill	Pine Island	1976
i	Katie Hill	Curly Ray Cline	1977
i	Katy Hill	Red and Murphy & Co.	1978
i	Katy Hill	Oscar & Eugene Wright	1978
i	Katy Hill	Charlie Moore with Bill Napier and The Dixie Partners with Al Elliott	1978
i	Katy Hill	Hershel Sizemore	1979
i	Katy Hill	Paul Warren with Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass	1979
i	Katy Hill	Jim Shumate	1980
i	Katie Hill	Byard Ray	1981
i	Katy Hill	Geoff Stelling and The Hard Times Bluegrass Band	1983
i	Katy Hill	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with The Foggy Mountain Boys	1984	Live Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Katy Hill	Edden Hammons	1984	Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Katy Hill	Charlie McCoy	September 1987
i	North Carolina Breakdown - Nancy Rowland - Katie Hill	A. Robic & the Exertions	1987	Medley
i	Katy Hill	Joe LaRose	1988
i	Katy Hill	Art Stamper	1989
i	Katy Hill	Deseret String Band	1990
i	Katie Hill	Dwight Lamb	1992
i	Katy Hill	Fletcher Bright	1993
i	Katy Hill	Blue Sky Boys	1993	Live Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Katy Hill	Bob Walters	1993
i	Katy Hill	Benton Flippen	1994
i	Katy Hill	Delbert Hughes	1994
i	Katie Hill	Steve Kaufman	1994
i	Katy Hill	J.P. and Annadeene Fraley	October 17, 1995
i	Katy Hill	Mac Benford & The Woodshed All-Stars	January 30, 1996
i	Katy Hill	Jeff Autry - Wayne Benson - Aubrey Haynie - Rob Ickes - Mark Schatz - Rickie Simpkins - Scott Vestal	1997
i	Katy Hill	Bobby Hicks	January 13, 1998
i	Katy Hill	Michael Cleveland	1998
i	Katy Hill	Jake Krack	2001
i	Katy Hill	Dan Levenson	2001
i	Katie Hill	James Price [US1]	February 25, 2003
i	Katy Hill	Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and Ricky Skaggs with Ensemble	July 15, 2003	Live
i	Katy Hill (Piney Woods)	Uncle Charlie Higgins, Wade Ward & Dale Poe	2004	Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Katy Hill	Ward Jarvis	2004	Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Katy Hill	Buddy Thomas	2005
i	Katy Hill	Dewey Brown with Dr. Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys	September 21, 2006
i	Katy Hill	Curly Seckler	April 17, 2007
i	Katy Hill	Benton Flippen & The Smokey Valley Boys	2008	Live Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Katy Hill	Albert Hash	2009
i	Katy Hill	The Bing Brothers Band featuring Jake Krack	March 10, 2012	Live
i	Katy Hill	Joseph Decosimo	July 25, 2012
i	Katy Hill	Craig Morris [US2]	2013
i	Katy Hill	Dean Sturgill	September 28, 2015
i	Katy Hill	Ralph Whited	2015
i	Katy Hill	Carlton Rawlings	2015
i	Katy Hill	The Stuart Brothers	August 4, 2017
i	Katy Hill	Risey Scruggs	2017

Sally Johnson written by [Traditional] instrumental

	Title	Performer	Release date	Info
i	Sally Johnson and Billy in the Low Ground	A. C. (Eck) Robertson	September 5, 1924	First recording on July 1, 1922 First release Medley
i	Sally Johnson	Rutherford and Foster	1929
i	Sally Johnson	Lowe Stokes and Riley Puckett	1930
i	Sally Johnson	Tom Dickey's Orchestra	1950
i	Sally Johnson	Buddy Durham	1955
i	Sally Johnson	The Dillards and Byron Berline	February 1965
i	Sally Johnson	Vernon Solomon	1965
i	Sally Johnson - Katy Hill	Bill Long [US2]	1967	Live Medley
i	Sally Johnson	Byron Berline	1967	Live
i	Sally Johnson	The McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith	1968	Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Sally Johnson	Benny Thomasson and Jerry Thomasson	1973	Live
i	Sally Johnson	Mark O'Connor with Norman Blake and Charlie Collins	1974
i	Sally Johnson	W.L. Gregory and Clyde Davenport	1974
i	Sally Johnson	Alan Munde	1975
i	Sally Johnson	Terry Morris, Texas Shorty, Benny Thomasson, Mark O'Connor, Jerry Thomasson, Bartow Riley	1977
i	Sally Johnson	Lonnie Robertson	1977
i	Sally Johnson	Paul Warren with Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass	1979
i	Sally Johnson	Cyril Stinnett	1992
i	Sally Johnson	Mark O'Connor with Terry Morris, Texas Shorty and Benny Thomasson	September 14, 1993	Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Sally Johnson	Rafe & Clelia Stefanini	2008
i	Sally Johnson	The Dust Busters	2009
i	Sally Johnson	The Bucking Mules	April 4, 2014
i	Sally Johnson	Lee Stoneking	2014	Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Sally Johnson	Tom Fuller	September 28, 2015
i	Sally Johnson	Ralph Whited	2015
i	Sally Johnson	Jacie Sites	December 13, 2017
i	Sally Johnson	Jesse McReynolds & Friends	September 27, 2019

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