Description
DESCRIPTION
Gid Tanner and The Skillet Lickers was probably old time country music's best-known string band of the 1920s - they almost certainly had the biggest sales in the '20s and '30s. Their first visit to the recording studios was in April 1926. Two regular members of the band were Gid Tanner himself and guitarist/vocalist Riley Puckett who had already made records together. The success of those discs encouraged Columbia to form the Skillet Lickers as a studio band. A real innovation was the inclusion of three fiddle players in the line-up - prior to this twin fiddles had been the maximum. The three-fiddle format would become a regular feature on Skillet Lickers' records - adding to their distinctive sound. Their first issued sides by the group were released in June 1926 and sold over 207,000 copies. At this time, sales of 30,000 were considered a success. The Skillet Lickers (and Old Timey music in general) were on the map. The band would evolve to feature rustic comedy sketches which developed into series and exploited the imagined characteristics of country folk. Several of those sides are included here. Here's Old Timey music in it's leaping, laughing, lively youth featuring some of it's most expert exponents. If you want to know more about country music's origins it's essential.
Soldiers Joy
Rock That Cradle Lucy
Bonaparte's Retreat
Cripple Creek
Hell' Broke Loose in Georgia
There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
Rocky Pallet
A Corn Licker Still in Georgia, Pt. 1
A Corn Licker Still in Georgia, Pt. 2
Pass Around the Bottle and We'll All Take a Drink
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
Alabama Jubilee
Bully of the Town
Where Did You Get That Hat
Goodbye Booze
Mississippi Sawyer
Georgia Waggoner
Rufus
Cumberland Gap on a Buckin' Mule
Hawkins Rag
Skillet Licker Breakdown
Devilish Mary
Old Dan Tucker
Nancy Rollin'
Soldier Will You Marry Me
Sal's Gone to the Cider Mill
New Arkansas Traveller
Leather Breeches
Sugar in the Gourd
Georgia Wagner
Watermelon on the Vine
Don't You Heart Jerusalem Moan
A Fiddler's Convention in Georgia, Pt. 1
A Fiddler's Convention in Georgia, Pt. 2
Settin' in the Chimney Jamb
Prettiest Little Girl in the County
Black Eyed Susie
Cotton-Eyed Joe
Tanner's Boarding House
On Tanner's Farm
Down Yonder
Back Up and Push
Git Along
Whoa, Mule, Whoa
Shortening Bread
Dance All Night with a Bottle in Your Hand
She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain
I Don't Love Nobody
I Got Mine
Old Joe Clark
The Darktown Strutter's Ball
Drink 'Er Down
Dixie
The Girl I Left Behind Me
The Old Gray Mare
John Henry (The Steel Drivin' Man)
Johnson' Old Gray Mule
Possum Hunt on Stump House Mountain, Pt. 1
Possum Hunt on Stump House Mountain, Pt. 2
Bile Them Cabbage Down
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Old McDonald Had a Farm
Big Ball in Town
I'm Satisfied
Three Nights Drunk
Buckin' Mule
Sleeping Lulu
McMichen's Breakdown
Molly Put the Kettle on
Whistlin' Rufus
Miss McCleod's Reel
Four Cent Cotton
Cacklin' Hen and Rooster Too
Rickett's Hornpipe
Ride Old Buck to Water
Show Me the Way to Go Home
Cotton Baggin'
The Rovin' Gambler
It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
Going on Down Town
Mississippi Sawyer
Flatwoods
Never Seen the Likes Since Gettin' Upstairs
A Night in a Blind Tiger, Pt. 1
A Night in a Blind Tiger, Pt. 2
Ya Gotta Quit Kicki'n My Dog Around
Turkey in the Straw
Polly Wolly Doo
Uncle Bud
Liberty
Sal Let Me Chaw Your Rosin
Slow Buck
Cumberland Gap
Hen Cackle
Tra-Le-La-La
Hinkey-Dinkey-Dee
Keep Your Gal at Home
Cotton Patch
Flop-Eared Mule
Soldier's Joy
