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Delmore Brothers - Classic Cuts 1933-1941 [4 CD]

Delmore Brothers - Classic Cuts 1933-1941 [4 CD]

Release Date: /// Jsp Records

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The Delmore Brothers adapted their style with the times. At the start of their career, their then innovative approach, superseded many pioneer country artists. Toward the end of their career they adapted to the sounds of the 1940s and '50s, arguably pioneering the rockabilly sound. Alton usually took lead vocals, but they could switch high and low parts between them. Their influence on The Monroe Brothers is undoubted. Apart from harmony singing, their recordings are characterised by clear diction and clean-cut guitar playing. Born in Alabama in the early 20th century Alton and Rabon were sons of tenant farmers. Seeking better land, they moved to Tennessee. Their fortunes did not improve. The family worked on other farms as day laborers. These tough experiences would re-emerge in Delmore songs. Alton later said that the shadow of poverty never quite left them. But their mother could play and read music. She taught Alton and, settling on guitar, he became a fine musician. He also attended gospel singing schools. The early interest in gospel music was later reflected in their use of sacred material which continued throughout their career. Later, in the 1940s and early 1950s, even when they had a string of nationwide hits, they insisted on recording gospel material. By 1926 The Delmores were already working on their harmony singing and instrumental work. At some point Alton had bought a tenor guitar. Taught by Alton, Rabon could play it by the time he was ten - apparently using banjo chords. Alto chose the tenor guitar - smaller than the standard six-string guitar and having only four strings - after he'd seen a vaudeville double act use one. It was an example of their willingness to step outside rigid country traditions. By the end of their careers (Rabon died from lung cancer in 1952) the brothers had been Opry stars (and fallen out with the Opry) and written over 1000 songs including Freight Train Boogie - a key link in the Rock 'n' Roll story.

Tracklist:

  1. I Ain't Got Nowhere to Travel
  2. Smokey Mountain Bill and His Song
  3. Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
  4. Lonesome Yodel Blues
  5. Brown's Ferry Blues
  6. I'm Mississippi Bound
  7. I've Got the Big River Blues
  8. Girls Don't Worry My Mind, The
  9. Bury Me out on the Prairie
  10. Frozen Girl, The
  11. Lonesome Jailhouse Blues
  12. Blue Railroad Train
  13. When It's Summertime in a Southern Clime
  14. Blow Yo' Whistle, Freight Train
  15. Down South
  16. Brown's Ferry Blues, Pt. 2
  17. I Got the Kansas City Blues
  18. Alabama Lullaby
  19. Fugitive's Lament, The
  20. I'm Going Away
  21. I Long to See My Mother
  22. Lorena, The Slave
  23. Nashville Blues, The
  24. Lover's Warning, The
  25. I'm Worried Now
  26. Take Away This Lonesome Day
  27. Promise Me You'll Always Be Faithful
  28. Don't You See That Train
  29. It's Takin' Me Down
  30. That Yodelin' Gal -- Miss Julie
  31. I'm Gonna Change My Way
  32. Happy Hickey -- The Hobo
  33. Lonesome Yodel Blues
  34. Put Me on the Train to Carolina
  35. My Smokey Mountain Gal
  36. Take Me Back to the Range
  37. No Drunkard Can Enter There
  38. Southern Moon
  39. False Hearted Girl
  40. Budded Rose, The
  41. Blind Child, The
  42. Are You Marching With the Savior
  43. No One
  44. Lead Me
  45. I Need the Prayers of Those I Love
  46. I've Got the Railroad Blues
  47. Weary Lonesome Blues, The
  48. Heavenly Light Is Shining on Me
  49. Wonderful There
  50. Singing My Troubles Away
  51. They Say It Is Sinful to Flirt
  52. Till the Roses Bloom Again
  53. When We Held Our Hymn Books Together
  54. Hi De Ho Baby Mine
  55. Goodbye Booze
  56. Careless Love (Bring My Baby Back)
  57. In That Vine Covered Chapel in the Valley
  58. Cannon Ball, The
  59. 15 Miles from Birmingham
  60. Where Is My Sailor Boy
  61. Just the Same Sweet Thing to Me
  62. Better Range Is Home, A
  63. Don't Let My Ramblin' Bother Your Mind
  64. Wabash Blues
  65. Go Easy Mabel
  66. Over the Hills
  67. Dying Truckdriver, The
  68. Scatterbrain Mama
  69. Happy on the Mississippi Shore
  70. Rainin' on the Mountain
  71. See That Coon in a Hickory Tree
  72. Storms Are on the Ocean, The
  73. Back to Birmingham
  74. Eastern Gate, The
  75. God Put a Rainbow in the Clouds
  76. There's Trouble on My Mind Today
  77. Silver Dollar
  78. Old Mountain Dew
  79. In the Blue Hills of Virginia
  80. Make Room in the Lifeboat for Me
  81. When It's Time for the Whip-Poor-Will to Sing
  82. Will You Be Lonesome Too?
  83. Broken Hearted Lover
  84. I Now Have a Bugle to Play
  85. Baby Girl
  86. Gospel Cannonball
  87. Honey I'm Ramblin' Away

UPC: 788065772727
Label: JSP RECORDS
Release Date: 5.11.04
Format: CD

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