"Black and White Rag" is a Texas style, western swing breakdown in G Major ('A' and 'C' parts) & C Major ('B' part). The parts are played ABACA (Phillips), AABBAACC (Brody) or AA'A'A'BCDD'EE'FF' (Reiner & Anick). "Black and White Rag" is a 1908 ragtime composition by George Botsford (1874-1949), a Midwesterner who moved to Tin Pan Alley and had a long career as a composer in various forms of music. It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983), Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995) and Reiner & Ancik's Old Time Fiddling Across America (1989). It was recorded by Benny Thomasson on Country Fiddling from the Big State, Critton Hollow on Great Dreams (1988), Terry Morris on A Texas Jam Session, Ernie Hunter on All about Fiddling, Milton Brown and His Brownies on Beer Parlor Jive and Doc Watson and Chet Atkins on Reflectons.