Cotton Patch Rag
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Cotton Patch Rag" is a Texas-style country rag in C Major. The parts are played AA'BB'<br> (Silberberg), AA'BCC' (Phillips) or AABCDEA (Brody). A tune by this title was composed in the<br> 1st decade of the 20th century, during the Ragtime era. "Cotton Patch Rag" was originally a<br> Texas fiddle tune. Bluegrass fiddler Byron Berline relates: "I used to go to fiddle contests<br> with my dad, but I never heard 'Cotton Patch Rag' played anywhere except in the states of Texas and<br> Oklahoma" (Frets Magazine). It has also been attributed to popular Grand Old Opry star<br> Tennessee's Fiddlin' Arthur Smith (1898–1971). In Texas-style fiddling the tune uses<br> 'figure-eight bowing' in the 'B' part, while an added fourth part to the tune features<br> 'double-shuffle' bowing. <br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Frets Magazine, March 1983 "Byron Berline: The Fiddle",<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995),<br> Reiner & Anick's Old-Time Fiddling Across America (1989) and<br> Silberberg's 93 Tunes I Didn't Learn at the Tractor Tavern (2004). <br> It was recorded by Benny Thomasson on You Be the Judge,<br> Lonnie Robertson on Fiddle Favorites (c. 1971–72),<br> Lewis Franklin on Texas Fiddle Favorites,<br> The Dillards with Byron Berline on Pickin' and Fiddlin,<br> John Dilleshaw (1929),<br> Mark O'Conner on A Texas Jam Session,<br> Mark O'Conner on Pickin' in the Wind,<br> Earl Garner on Fiddle Hoedown,<br> Herman Johnson on More Fiddle on The Weiser Reunion: A Jam Session (1993). <br>
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