Friday, August 29, 2008
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This week's Obsolete Music standard bearers include Jim and Jesse, the Golden Gate Quartet, Blind Boy Fuller, Hylo Brown, Charles and Bill Monroe (wait 'til you hear Bill sing bass!), and a few Texas fiddle and blues bands.
Today's show features a visit with the Grand Ole Opry's legendary De Ford Bailey and a complete 1953 broadcast by Kentucky Holiness preacher and song leader Brother Claude Ely, including “There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down.”
Bob Wills, his brother Billy Jack, and Benny Goodman share some hot licks. Benny then flies on the Air Mail Special, as do Jim and Jesse. Add contrasting versions of "Frankie and Albert" and "Red Rocking Chair," a really flaky World War II morale booster from Karl and Harty, and you've got another unforgettable Obsolete Music Hour.
One new CD spotlights Hawiian guitar virtuoso Sol Hoopii in the 1930s; another collects Nashville music from independent labels in the 1940s. Dick's favorite hillbilly harmonicat Slim Martin is featured, and so is Fats Domino's cover of a Jimmie Rodgers classic. Obsolete Music was never better!
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