Playlist - 3/15/2015 - Old Time & Frank Blevins

Hi Folks.

With spurts bracketing the show, our air time was very irregular, but we managed to get about an hour and a half of a show on for you between 1:40 and 3:10 pm.  Marti missed the show because of a conflict.


This show focused more on old time music than anything else with the exceptions of the Marti-less Bunkhouse which consisted of older western songs from Ray Whitley, Elton Britt, and Rex Allen; and some of the closing set of 1950s country duos that included the Louvin Brothers, Johnnie & Jack, and the York Brothers.

The old time music included J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers, a back-to-back comparison of "Salty Dog Blues" by modern-version composers the Morris Brothers and an earlier but different version by Sam McGee, The Georgia Yellow Hammers, The Blankenship Family, Grayson & Whitter, and rare singles from Jack Reedy & His Walker Mountain String Band and the Woodie Brothers.

We also played a set of country blues with Frank Hutchison, the Leake County Revelers, and Cliff Carlisle.

Frank Blevins and Edd Blevins

The centerpiece of the show was the complete recorded works of Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers.  Fiddler Blevins was sixteen when he was recruited by a talent scout to record along with his older brother Edd on guitar and neighbor Frank Miller on banjo, and after two recording sessions between 1927 and 1928, six of his sides had been released. 

Frank Blevins, Jack Reedy, Edd Blevins, Muriel Dockery
with Eleanor Roosevelt. 1933 Whitetop Folk Festival

Another four were not released and no known recordings exist today.  Blevins and the Rattlers produced some high energy string band music.  We can only imagine what might have followed had the Great Depression not ended so many early recording careers.

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We hope you tune in for more great legacy music.

Jim & Marti

Artist / Title / Album / Label / Year Recorded

• Golden Gate Quartet / Didn't It Rain / Complete Recorded Works Volume 4 / Document / 1941
• Brother Claude Ely / Send Down That Rain / Satan Get Back! / Ace-King / 1953
• Little Jimmy Dickens / Old Country Preacher / Hot Digity Dog / B.A.C.M / 1952
• Clyde Moody / No Letter in the Mail / If You Need Me I'll Be Around Vol. 2 / B.A.C.M / 1940
• Frank Hutchison / Cannonball Blues / Old-Time Mountain Blues (1927-1939) / County / 1929
• Leake County Revelers / Leake County Blues / Old-Time Mountain Blues (1927-1939) / County / 1929
• Cliff Carlisle / Troubled Minded Blues / Old-Time Mountain Blues (1927-1939) / County / 1937
• Sam McGee / Salty Dog Blues / Complete Works In Chronological Order 1926-1934 / Document / 1927
• Morris Brothers / Let Me Be Your Salty Dog / Salty Dog Blues / B.A.C.M / 1938
• Mainer's Mountaineers / The Longest Train / In The Pines / Old Hat / 1935
• The Georgia Yellow Hammers / Going To Ride That Midnight Train / Johnson's Old Grey Mule / B.A.C.M / 1927
• Blankenship Family / Working on the Railroad / In The Pines - Tar Heel Folk Songs & Fiddle Tunes / Old Hat / 1931
• Ray Whitley / Come On Boys We're Ridin' Into Town / Back In The Saddle Again / B.A.C.M / 1938
• Elton Britt / Jackass Blues / Jackass Blues / B.A.C.M / 1951
• Rex Allen / Wringle Wrangle / Sky Boss / B.A.C.M / 1957
• Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers / Nine Pound Hammer / Music From The Lost Provinces / Old Hat / 1928
• Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers / Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss / Music From The Lost Provinces / Old Hat / 1927
• Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers / Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind / Music From The Lost Provinces / Old Hat / 1928
• Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers / I've Got No Honey Babe Now / Music From The Lost Provinces / Old Hat / 1927
• Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers / Old Aunt Betsy / Music From The Lost Provinces / Old Hat / 1927
• Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers / Sally Ann / Music From The Lost Provinces / Old Hat / 1927
• Johnnie and Jack / Crying Heart Blues / Best of the Best of the Duos / Federal / 1951
• York Brothers / River of Tears / Best of the Best of the Duos / Federal / 1952
• Louvin Brothers / My Baby's Gone / Best of the Best of the Duos / Federal / 1958
• Grayson & Whitter / Train 45 / Music From The Lost Provinces / Old Hat / 1927
• Jack Reedy & His Walker Mountain String Band / Ground Hog / Music From The Lost Provinces / Old Hat / 1928
• Woodie Brothers / Like Likker Better Than Me / Music From The Lost Provinces / Old Hat / 1931