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PORTER. American, Reel (cut time). C Major (1st part) & A Minor (2nd part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was in the repertoire of Grease Gravy Hill (Paoli), Indiana, fiddler Lotus Dickey, who said he had learned it around 1926 from a local fiddler named Poindexter "Deck" Ainsworth, who was originally from Arkansas. Ainsworth himself had learned the tune, sans title, from a man named Porter, and so just called it "Porter".

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Recorded sources: - Vigortone VT-1911, Lotus Dickey - "Down the Pike and other Fiddle Tunes from Orange County, Indiana" ().

See also listing at:
Hear Lotus Dickey's recording at Slippery Hill [1]

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