Roy Harper & Blake Bynum - Very Countrified

 Here is one of my favorite LP`s. It`s not that I`m a huge Roy Harper fan as much as I love the style and sound of Blake Bynum`s finger picked guitar and his Dobro style (which he actually played on a National Tri-Cone guitar). I`m a big fan of the Hawaiian cuts for sure. Happy downloading!

 

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Why Is Roy Acuff

 Here is the next installment of the Roy Acuff Hickory material. This two LP set has many of Roy`s very early, most popular recordings. Thus the title... Why Is Roy Acuff, these early hits are why Roy Acuff got to be a star (just like any star, you have to have a hit to start you). Enjoy!

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More repaired download links

I have had some more download links go bad. I have fixed all of them that I know of now.
the bad links that are now fixed are for---
Bradley Kincaid on the Blue Bonnet label, Vols.1&2
Bradley Kincaid - American Ballads & Folk Songs
Arthur Tanner - Paramount etc. sides
Hank Williams Radio Show
That`s My Rabbit-My Dog Caught It
Anytime you all get a bad link let me know, I`ll get it fixed in a couple of days.

Good Old Mountain Dew - Banjo Songs Of The Southern Mountains

I`ve not posted this type of old-time LP in a while now, so here`s a good `un! There`s some great old-time banjo stuff here. One neat thing about it... the last track is by Samantha Bumgarner. She was the first woman, along with her music partner Eva Davis, to make a country music record, way back in April 1924. Hope you like this one!

Click here to download Good Old Mountain Dew - Banjo Songs Of The Southern Mountains

Repaired download link

I was just told the link to download 15 Country Greats By 8 Great Artists - Country Music At It`s Country Best had been deleted. It was on Rapid Share and they have gone crazy deleting things lately. I have fixed the link with another file service, Zippy Share. Happy Downloading!

Roy Acuff - A Living Legend

Here is the next installment of the Roy Acuff Hickory material. This is a neat LP I think because it is re-recordings of earlier material he recorded for Columbia mostly. It`s kind of interesting to compare the two different versions of the songs, the difference in the sound of the band mostly. Enjoy!

Click here to download Roy Acuff - A Living Legend

Two new (at least to me) blogs I found that I like

I just recently added two other blogs to my list.
www.westernswing78.blogspot.com      This has, as you could see by the name, early western swing.
The other is...      www.tamtammelodie.blogspot.com         This is a little different from what you might expect me to like. I`d say at least half of the posts are Hawaiian music, which is what I like about it.
Check them out!

Tommy Jackson - Popular Square Dance Music

Here is some mighty fine fiddlin`! Tommy Jackson perhaps had the most popular fiddling records at the time this was released, although fiddle instrumental records were falling out of fashion at the time and has never been mainstream since. When was the last time a fiddle instrumental made the charts?!
There were some great fiddlers recording at the time this was recorded, such as Howdy Forrester, Benny Martin, etc. This was the latest country country fiddling styles at the time. Not old-time, bluegrass or western swing in style, but a new-ish niche in country fiddling that could be describes as sort of a jazz or blues influence due to inprovisition, but still not as modern as such fiddlers as Vassar Clements or Johnny Gimble.
I wonder what ever happened to Tommy Jackson. I have never heard of him since he was a star fiddler in the 1950`s and early 1960`s. Give this a listen and enjoy!

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Roy Acuff download links fixed

OK folks, I changed file services for the latest two Roy Acuff posts. I fixed the download links to the new service, so all you need to do is click the links in the post as usual to download. Let me know how it works for you---Allen

Blocked downloads

Seems as soon as I posted the two new Acuff LP`s, Media Fire, the file host I use, has blocked them. Give me a little time as I look into some options----Allen