Steel guitar blues - Roy Acuff. 1937. White country blues.
Hello stranger - Carter family. 1937. Harry Smith, vol.4.
Hello stranger - Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock. 1990. Two Roads.
Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Unusual voiced co-founder of the Flatlanders with Ely/Hancock. Very trad.(sic) Tulia, Texas. 1945-
Butch Hancock. Great Texan cult singer/songwriter. Lubbock, Texas.1945-
I,ll keep my old guitar Adolf Hofner & his Texans. 1938.
Adolph Hofner. Jx2. Moulton, Texas. 1916- (Played guitar).
Blackjack David - The Carter Family. 1940. Harry Smith, vol.4.
Blackjack David - Dave Alvin. 1998. Blackjack David.
Dave Alvin. Great roots rock/country from the ex-blaster. Los Angeles, California.1955-
New San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys. 1940. Howdy!
San Antonio Rose - Asleep at the wheel. 1999. Ride with Bob.
Asleep at the Wheel. Western swing revivalists & good too. Paw Paw,West Virginia.1969-
Ray Benson, everpresent, 16.5.1951 - Philadelphia.
Walkin, the floor over you - Ernest Tubb. 1941. Hillbilly.
Ernest Tubb. - Ex3. Ernest Dale Tubb, Crisp,Ellis county,Texas. 9.2.1914 - 6.9.1984.
A youthful imitator of Jimmie Rodgers, guitarist/vocalist Tubb, was pioneer broadcaster (KONO radio, San Antonio) from 1934 before recording 2 landmark tribute songs to his dead hero Rodgers in 1936. In 1941 he recorded his own million selling number, Walkin, the floor over you.
Take me back to Tulsa - Bob Wills. 1941. Western swing.
Lil Liza Jane - Bob Wills. 1941
Born to lose - Ted Daffan & his Texans. 1942. Howdy!
Ted Daffan. Texas, 1912 -
Although a native of Louisiana, singer-songwriter-guitarist, Theron Eugene "Ted" Daffan was raised in Texas. After graduating in 1930, he ran a Hawaiian band before joining the Blue Ridge Playboys (& subsequently the Houston Bar X Cowboys) as a guitarist in 1934. As a songwriter he penned the first really succesful "trucking song", "Truckdrivers blues" in 1939. The Texans had their own first big recording hit in 1940 with Daffan,s composition "Worried mind" & many others followed, most notably the million selling Daffan song "No letter today" coupled with "Born to lose" (written under the pseuodonym of Frankie Brown) in 1942. The record won Daffan a coveted Country Gold Disc Award in 1943.
Wreck on the highway - Roy Acuff. 1942. Hillbilly.
Night train to Memphis - Roy Acuff. 1942. American Roots.
Don,t fence me in - Gene Autry. 1944. Best of ..
Pretty boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie. 1944. American Roots.
Pretty boy Floyd - The Byrds. 1968. Boxed set./ Sweetheart of the Rodeo.
Oklahoma hills - Jack Guthrie. 1945. Western swing.
Home on the range - Gene Autry. 1945. Western swing.
Brown,s ferry blues - Delmore brothers. 1946. Hillbilly.
Freight train boogie - Delmore Brothers. Hillbilly.
Red river valley - Gene Autry. 1946. American roots.
Cotton eyed Joe - Adolph Hofner. 1941. Roots ,n, blues.
Cotton eyed Joe - Bob Wills. 1946.(Instrumental) American roots.
Prodigal daughter.(Cotton eyed Joe) - Michelle Shocked. 1992. Arkansas Traveller.
Cotton eyed Joe - Freight Hoppers. 1997. F.R.no.9. 1997.
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