Here`s some hard core traditional style 1940`s country (as opposed to honky-tonk style)! For some reason King decided to spell his name Jimmy on this LP, I believe he spelled his nme Jimmie, as that`s what all other records I`ve saw has on them. I don`t really have any information about him except what you can find for yourself on the internet, so I`ll talk just a bit about his music. His music was similar to the style of Roy Acuff vocally. Another artist similar in vocal style would be Howard Vokes. Enjoy!
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Thanks Allen, Interesting of the spelling of his first name from the back to the front cover. Guess there was no quality control back then.
ReplyDeleteHa! I didn`t even notice that.
DeleteKing did something with this album I've never encountered before: They cut pieces out of the tunes to shorten them, and not too expertly, either. At 1:26 of A Vacant Sign... you can hear the first 1 1/2 notes of the instrumental run they cut. The Hills of Roan County has three verses cut but it's only obvious at the end where they patched in the outro. I haven't compared them all yet, but Empty Old Cottage and I Did and I Does... match my tracks so either those two weren't shortened or I already had the shortened versions from somewhere. I found it interesting, anyway.
ReplyDeleteI know that King done this on at least one Grandpa Jones LP and possibly a Delmore Brothers LP. I think they were trying to cram as many sides as possible on these (re-issue) LP`s, so cutting some instrumental breaks out to shorten the cuts gave them more room to put a few more tracks than were common at the time on an LP, making buyers think they were getting a bargain.
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