Cotton Pod Jig

“Cotton Pod Jig” is an anonymous minstrel-era banjo piece printed on page 62 of Frank B. Converse’s New and Complete Method for the Banjo, With or Without a Master (New York: S. T. Gordon; copyright 1865), the tutor known to players as the “Green” Converse. It sits in the book’s Miscellaneous section, outside the graded key-by-key chapters that make up the instructional body of the tutor. The jig label here carries the 19th-century American banjo sense of a 2/4 dance piece, not the 6/8 Irish jig.