Freight Train Boogie
Red Foley
Billy Hill and the Hillbillies
Delmore Brothers
Okie Doke featuring Orville Johnson
Ramblin Jug Stompers With Evan Conway
Country Fried Grass
Chet Atkins and Doc Watson
Delmore Brothers
The Delmore Brothers Pan Ammerican Boogie
4 comments:
These old songs are great. My great Uncle Floyd Henderson used to play fiddle in one of Red's traveling bands. He wrote a song they used to play, "Leave the Sears catalog in the Old Outhouse," which was a hit on what they use to call the old corncob pipe circuit. They would start in Snowball, Arkansas and play all the way up to around West Plains. Do you have any additional video of Red. I was hoping to catch my uncle.
Snowball, Arkansas, I had forgotten about that place. We had some friends who bought property down there in the early 70s.
I had kin that settled in Snowball early on. One of my Grandfather's sisters, Ida May Henderson, used to waterwitch for the farmers around there. Family legend says that when Ida May died that farmers walked or rode horses and mules for over a hundred miles to pay their respects. My Dad remembers her just faintly, said that she would sneer at him and say, "Are ya up to no good, cause I got a switch for ya if you are." Would scare the hell out of him.
Outstanding collection of versions, Jim .... good work here.
--kelly k
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