Shoes and Stockings
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Shoes and Stockings" is an American reel in 4/4 or cut time and G Major.<br> The parts are played AB (Silberberg) or AABB (Songer).<br> This is another tune from Henry Reed as collected by Alan Jabbour.<br> Henry Reed said that "Shoes and Stockings" was a tune from his elderly mentor<br> Quince Dillon, a fifer in both the Mexican War andthe Civil War.<br> Quince also was an accomplished fiddler. Quince's unit, the<br> 166th Virginia Militia, was eventually incorporated into the <br> 59th Virginia Infantry, which along with other Confederate units,<br> was captured at the Battle of Roanoke Island, North Carolina on <br> February 8, 1862. As the story goes, the Yankee commander of the<br> prison where Dillon was imprisoned held a fiddle contest. The <br> prize was that the fiddler who played the best original<br> composition would be set free. Quince Dillon played a tune he<br> composed on the spot and won the contest!<br> The tune shares some phrases with "The Twin Sisters" (English version).<br> I don't know if there is any real connection.<br> It was printed in Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021) and<br> Songer's Portland Collection (1997).<br> It was recorded by Jabbour, Bradley and Thompson on Sandy's Fancy (1981) and<br> Alan Jabbour, James Ree and Bertram Levy on A Henry Reed Reunion (2002).<br>
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