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Allen Brothers with Other Country Brother Acts
Allen Brothers
Allen Brothers with Other Country Brother Acts
Allen Brothers
Country music has always featured brother acts. The most prolific included the Delmore Brothers, the Blue Sky Boys and the Monroe Brothers. This collection focuses mainly on Austin and Lee Allen. The first three CD's are devoted to them and the fourth deals with their fraternal contemporaries. By the early 1920's, already professional musicians, they settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chattanooga would feature in a number of their titles to the extent they were dubbed the Chattanooga Boys. In Chattanooga the Allen's got on radio once or twice a week - a bonus because radio was then the most effective form of publicity. The result was lucrative bookings as far afield as Georgia. They also performed for medicine shows - the musicians gathered a receptive audience for the show owner to exploit. The Allen's seem to have entered the recording studio fairly seamlessly and they had decent record sales. They recorded regularly - most years twice or more. Their sales were sufficient for them to continue to record well into the 1930's - many musicians were discarded because of the depression. Possibly their best-selling title was the slightly risqué a New Salty Dog. Other good sellers were Jake Walk Blues and Reckless Night Blues. Inevitably new brother acts like the Shelton's, the Anglin's and the Crowder's overtook the Allen's, and a few of those are also included.
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Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 4 |
Composer | Diverse |
Released | February 17, 2015 |
EAN/UPC | 0788065718220 |
Label | JSP Records JSP77182.2 |
Genre | Country |
Dimensions | 127 × 148 × 42 mm · 373 g |
Track list
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1. CD
- Frisco Blues
- Tiple Blues
- Prisoner's Dream
- I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
- Free a Little Bird
- Skipping and Flying
- I've Got the Chain Store Blues
- The Enforcement Blues
- Jake Walk Blues
- Reckless Night Blues
- New Chattanooga Blues
- Shanghai Rooster Blues
- Price of Cotton Blues
- I'm Always Whistling the Blues
- Roll Down the Line
- Old Black Crow in the Hickory Nut Tree
- Baby When You Coming Back Home
- Long Gone from Bowling Green
- Red Pajama Sal
- New Deal Blues
- Mercy Mercy Blues
- Padlock Key Blues
- Daddy Park Your Car
- Misbehavin Mama
- Midnight Mama
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2. CD
- Salty Dog Blues
- Bow Wow Blues
- Chattanooga Blues
- Laughin and Cryin Blues
- Ain't That Skippin and Flyin
- Cheat Em
- No Low Down Hanging Around
- Maybe Next Week Sometime
- A New Salty Dog
- Preacher Blues
- When You Leave, You'll Leave Me Sad
- Chattanooga Mama
- It's Too Bad for You
- Slide Daddy Slide
- Pile Drivin Papa
- Shake It Ida Shake It
- Roll It Down
- Mother-In-Law Blues
- Unlucky Man
- Laughin and Cryin
- Monkey Blues
- Chattanooga Mama
- Drunk and Nutty Blues
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3. CD
- Salty Dog Hey Hey Hey
- Hey Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line
- Allen Brothers Rag
- Skippin and Flyin
- When a Man's Got a Woman
- Rough Neck Blues
- Slipping Clutch Blues
- Please Pay in Advance
- Allen's Lying Blues
- Midnight Mama
- Glorious Night Blues
- Inspiration
- Crossfiring Blues
- I'll Be Here a Long Long Time
- It Can't Be Done
- Windowshade Blues
- Maybe Next Week Sometime - No. 2
- Fruit Jar Blues
- Lightning Bug Blues
- Warm Knees Blues
- Red Hot Rambling Dan
- The Prisoner's Dream
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4. CD Various Artists
- Kanawha County Rag - Kessinger Brothers
- West Virginia Special - Kessinger Brothers
- Let Me Be Your Salty Dog - Morris Brothers
- Darling Think What You Have Done - Morris Brothers
- Deep Elem Blues - Shelton Brothers
- Four or Five Times - Shelton Brothers
- Bitter Creek - Oscar & Doc Harper
- Twinkle Little Star - Oscar & Doc Harper
- Likes Likker Better Than Me - Woodie Brothers
- Chased Old Satan Through the Door - Woodie Brothers
- Bull at the Wagon - Lewis Brothers
- Sally Johnson - Lewis Brothers
- C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken - McGhee Brothers
- Salty Dog Blues - McGhee Brothers
- Dance All Night with a Bottle in My Hand - Stripling Brothers
- Horse Shoe Bend - Stripling Brothers
- Southern Whoopee Song - Anglin Brothers
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