Title: And The Skillet Lickers
Artist: Gid Tanner
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 788065715526
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2012-04-24
Number of Discs: 4
Additional Details: BOXED SET

Gid Tanner and The Skillet Lickers was probably old time country music's best-known string band of the 1920s - they almost certainly had the biggest sales in the '20s and '30s. Their first visit to the recording studios was in April 1926. Two regular members of the band were Gid Tanner himself and guitarist/vocalist Riley Puckett who had already made records together. The success of those discs encouraged Columbia to form the Skillet Lickers as a studio band. A real innovation was the inclusion of three fiddle players in the line-up - prior to this twin fiddles had been the maximum. The three-fiddle format would become a regular feature on Skillet Lickers' records - adding to their distinctive sound. Their first issued sides by the group were released in June 1926 and sold over 207,000 copies. At this time, sales of 30,000 were considered a success. The Skillet Lickers (and Old Timey music in general) were on the map. The band would evolve to feature rustic comedy sketches which developed into series and exploited the imagined characteristics of country folk. Several of those sides are included here. Here's Old Timey music in it's leaping, laughing, lively youth featuring some of it's most expert exponents. If you want to know more about country music's origins it's essential.

Tracks:
1.1 Soldiers Joy
1.2 Rock That Cradle Lucy
1.3 Bonaparte's Retreat
1.4 Cripple Creek
1.5 Hell' Broke Loose in Georgia
1.6 There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
1.7 Rocky Pallet
1.8 A Corn Licker Still in Georgia, Pt. 1
1.9 A Corn Licker Still in Georgia, Pt. 2
1.10 Pass Around the Bottle and We'll All Take a Drink
1.11 Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
1.12 Alabama Jubilee
1.13 Bully of the Town
1.14 Where Did You Get That Hat
1.15 Goodbye Booze
1.16 Mississippi Sawyer
1.17 Georgia Waggoner
1.18 Rufus
1.19 Cumberland Gap on a Buckin' Mule
1.20 Hawkins Rag
1.21 Skillet Licker Breakdown
1.22 Devilish Mary
1.23 Old Dan Tucker
1.24 Nancy Rollin'
1.25 Soldier Will You Marry Me
2.1 Sal's Gone to the Cider Mill
2.2 New Arkansas Traveller
2.3 Leather Breeches
2.4 Sugar in the Gourd
2.5 Georgia Wagner
2.6 Watermelon on the Vine
2.7 Don't You Heart Jerusalem Moan
2.8 A Fiddler's Convention in Georgia, Pt. 1
2.9 A Fiddler's Convention in Georgia, Pt. 2
2.10 Settin' in the Chimney Jamb
2.11 Prettiest Little Girl in the County
2.12 Black Eyed Susie
2.13 Cotton-Eyed Joe
2.14 Tanner's Boarding House
2.15 On Tanner's Farm
2.16 Down Yonder
2.17 Back Up and Push
2.18 Git Along
2.19 Whoa, Mule, Whoa
2.20 Shortening Bread
2.21 Dance All Night with a Bottle in Your Hand
2.22 She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain
2.23 I Don't Love Nobody
2.24 I Got Mine
2.25 Old Joe Clark
3.1 The Darktown Strutter's Ball
3.2 Drink 'Er Down
3.3 Dixie
3.4 The Girl I Left Behind Me
3.5 The Old Gray Mare
3.6 John Henry (The Steel Drivin' Man)
3.7 Johnson' Old Gray Mule
3.8 Possum Hunt on Stump House Mountain, Pt. 1
3.9 Possum Hunt on Stump House Mountain, Pt. 2
3.10 Bile Them Cabbage Down
3.11 It's a Long Way to Tipperary
3.12 Old McDonald Had a Farm
3.13 Big Ball in Town
3.14 I'm Satisfied
3.15 Three Nights Drunk
3.16 Buckin' Mule
3.17 Sleeping Lulu
3.18 McMichen's Breakdown
3.19 Molly Put the Kettle on
3.20 Whistlin' Rufus
3.21 Miss McCleod's Reel
3.22 Four Cent Cotton
3.23 Cacklin' Hen and Rooster Too
3.24 Rickett's Hornpipe
3.25 Ride Old Buck to Water
4.1 Show Me the Way to Go Home
4.2 Cotton Baggin'
4.3 The Rovin' Gambler
4.4 It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
4.5 Going on Down Town
4.6 Mississippi Sawyer
4.7 Flatwoods
4.8 Never Seen the Likes Since Gettin' Upstairs
4.9 A Night in a Blind Tiger, Pt. 1
4.10 A Night in a Blind Tiger, Pt. 2
4.11 Ya Gotta Quit Kicki'n My Dog Around
4.12 Turkey in the Straw
4.13 Polly Wolly Doo
4.14 Uncle Bud
4.15 Liberty
4.16 Sal Let Me Chaw Your Rosin
4.17 Slow Buck
4.18 Cumberland Gap
4.19 Hen Cackle
4.20 Tra-Le-La-La
4.21 Hinkey-Dinkey-Dee
4.22 Keep Your Gal at Home
4.23 Cotton Patch
4.24 Flop-Eared Mule
4.25 Soldier's Joy

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