radio shimmy podcast: Hillbilly Heck!
this week is a diversion into hee-haw land. or more precisely, a place with lots of fiddle, harmonica, steel guitar, harmonies and of course, BANJO...
download: 128k mp3 (38.5mb // 41:05)
Full track list below...
setlist:
Hank Williams - Why Don't You Love Me - B-side of the Hey, Good Lookin' single on MGM ('51/'52)
Stanley Brothers - Ridin' That Midnight Train - B-Side of a single on Starday (mid-50's)
Downbeats - Ghost Riders - B-Side of an Italian pressing of UK surf/beat cash-in group.
Sons of the Pioneers - Destiny - RCA Victor single A-Side by group famous for "Ghost Riders" among others.
York Brothers - Tight Wad - from an early 50's single on King records (red label). Nice steel!
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Buck Trent - Bionic Banjo - Country popster co-writes this weird b-side (reference to the Bionic Man? check).
Bad Bascomb - Black Grass - "Country Funk." Great breakdown with banjo.
Beresford Creek - Light My Fire - Charleston, SC group give the Doors the bluegrass treatment.
Flatt & Scruggs - Buddy, Don't Roll So Slow - Only group original on late sixties Changin' Times LP on Columbia.
McKendree Spring - Down by the River - From a single, early 70's, small hit version of Neil Young's classic.
Eric Weissberg & Deliverance - Reuben's Train - He of "Dueling Banjos" fame. WB single.
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Green on Red - Fading Away - from the 1985 album "Gas Food Lodging" -- country-inflected rock.
Check out the HULLABALOO myspace page here -- next gig APRIL 28 !
12.april.2007