hoedown

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The instrumental “Mess Mend,” by the Baltimore band Horse Lords, starts out skewed — with chords from a slightly detuned piano hitting unevenly on offbeats — and gets nuttier from there, with a tricky 7/4 meter, a guitar melody that suggests a non-Euclidean hoedown and a gradual devolution into a funky electronic drone, not to mention a final twist.

From New York Times

Adaptations of folk music were in — including spirituals, the violinist Keir GoGwilt’s feathery fiddling renditions of Scottish ballads, and Aucoin’s hoedown “Shaker Dance.”

From New York Times

The parade was upgraded in 2017 with thousands of LED lights and a renovated sounds system to play the theme song/ear worm “Baroque Hoedown.”

From Los Angeles Times

She admits her spiffed-up office in the dreary CBS Broadcast Center “stuck out like a Givenchy gown at a hoedown.”

From Los Angeles Times

The third movement even incorporates climactic passages full of hoedown stomp.

From New York Times