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'''BROWN BUTTON SHOES'''. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, northeastern Ky. G Major ('A' part) & C Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Phillips): AA'BB' (Reiner & Anick).  
'''BROWN BUTTON SHOES'''. American, Reel (cut time). USA, northeastern Ky. G Major ('A' part) & C Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Phillips): AA'BB' (Reiner & Anick). The tune was also in the repertoire of Portsmouth, Ohio, fiddler and instrument repairer Jimmy Wheeler (1917-1987), who learned it either from his father or Acey "Aaa" Neal. Jeff Goehring says it was one of the "not-strictly Kentucky"  tunes "popular among Portsmouth area fiddlers of an earlier era" <ref>Jeff Goehring, "First Recording Session with Jimmy Wheeler" [https://fieldrecorder.org/first-recording-session-with-jimmy-wheeler/]</ref>.  Joe Stamper (Lewis County), another northeastern Kentucky fiddler, played a distanced version of the tune (which he also called "Brown Button Shoes").  
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<font color=red>''Source for notated version''</font>: - Joe Stamper & Morris Allen via Buddy Thomas (Ky.) [Reiner & Anick, Phillips].  
<font color=red>''Source for notated version''</font>: - Joe Stamper & Morris Allen via Buddy Thomas (Ky.) [Reiner & Anick, Phillips].  
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 38. Reiner & Anick ('''Old Time Fiddling Across America'''), 1989; p. 102.  
<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 38. Reiner & Anick ('''Old Time Fiddling Across America'''), 1989; p. 102.  
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<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> -Rounder 0032, Buddy Thomas (northeast Ky.) - "Kitty Puss: Old Time Fiddle Music From Kentucky" (1976).</font>
<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> -Rounder 0032, Buddy Thomas (northeast Ky.) - "Kitty Puss: Old Time Fiddle Music From Kentucky" (1976).</font>
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See also listing at:<br>
Hear Joe Stamper's field recording at Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/566]<br>
Hear Buddy Thomas's 1998 recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/brown-button-shoes]<br>
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BROWN BUTTON SHOES. American, Reel (cut time). USA, northeastern Ky. G Major ('A' part) & C Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Phillips): AA'BB' (Reiner & Anick). The tune was also in the repertoire of Portsmouth, Ohio, fiddler and instrument repairer Jimmy Wheeler (1917-1987), who learned it either from his father or Acey "Aaa" Neal. Jeff Goehring says it was one of the "not-strictly Kentucky" tunes "popular among Portsmouth area fiddlers of an earlier era" [1]. Joe Stamper (Lewis County), another northeastern Kentucky fiddler, played a distanced version of the tune (which he also called "Brown Button Shoes").

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Joe Stamper & Morris Allen via Buddy Thomas (Ky.) [Reiner & Anick, Phillips].

Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 38. Reiner & Anick (Old Time Fiddling Across America), 1989; p. 102.

Recorded sources: -Rounder 0032, Buddy Thomas (northeast Ky.) - "Kitty Puss: Old Time Fiddle Music From Kentucky" (1976).

See also listing at:
Hear Joe Stamper's field recording at Berea Sound Archives [1]
Hear Buddy Thomas's 1998 recording at Slippery Hill [2]


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  1. ↑ Jeff Goehring, "First Recording Session with Jimmy Wheeler" [3]
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