Cotton Patch Rag

"Cotton Patch Rag" is a Texas-style country rag in C Major. The parts are played AA'BB' (Silberberg), AA'BCC' (Phillips) or AABCDEA (Brody). A tune by this title was composed in the 1st decade of the 20th century, during the Ragtime era. "Cotton Patch Rag" was originally a Texas fiddle tune. Bluegrass fiddler Byron Berline relates:

"I used to go to fiddle contests with my dad, but I never heard 'Cotton Patch Rag' played anywhere except in the states of Texas and Oklahoma" (Frets Magazine).

It has also been attributed to popular Grand Old Opry star Tennessee's Fiddlin' Arthur Smith (1898–1971). In Texas-style fiddling the tune uses 'figure-eight bowing' in the 'B' part, while an added fourth part to the tune features 'double-shuffle' bowing.
It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983), Frets Magazine, March 1983 "Byron Berline: The Fiddle", Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995), Reiner & Anick's Old-Time Fiddling Across America (1989) and Silberberg's 93 Tunes I Didn't Learn at the Tractor Tavern (2004).
It was recorded by Benny Thomasson on You Be the Judge, Lonnie Robertson on Fiddle Favorites (c. 1971–72), Lewis Franklin on Texas Fiddle Favorites, The Dillards with Byron Berline on Pickin' and Fiddlin, John Dilleshaw (1929), Mark O'Conner on A Texas Jam Session and Pickin' in the Wind, Earl Garner on Fiddle Hoedown, Herman Johnson on More Fiddle on The Weiser Reunion: A Jam Session (1993).