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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].

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).

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

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

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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" <ref>Jeff Goehring, "First Recording Session with Jimmy Wheeler" [https://fieldrecorder.org/first-recording-session-with-jimmy-wheeler/]</ref>.
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