Title: Classic Cuts 1933-1941
Artist: The Delmore Brothers
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 788065772727
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2004-05-11
Number of Discs: 4

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 At the start of their career, their then innovative approach, superseded many pioneer country artists.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.

Tracks:
1.1 Ain't Got Nowhere to Travel
1.2 Smokey Mountain Bill and His Song
1.3 Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
1.4 Lonesome Yodel Blues
1.5 Brown's Ferry Blues
1.6 I'm Mississippi Bound
1.7 I've Got the Big River Blues
1.8 The Girls Don't Worry About My Mind
1.9 Bury Me Out on the Prairie
1.10 The Frozen Girl
1.11 Lonesome Jailhouse Blues
1.12 Blue Railroad Train
1.13 When It's Summertime in a Southern Clime
1.14 Blow Yo' Whistle Freight Train
1.15 Down South
1.16 Brown's Ferry Blues- Part 2
1.17 I Got the Kansas City Blues
1.18 Alabama Lullaby
1.19 The Fugitive's Lament
1.20 I'm Going Away
1.21 I Long to See My Mother
1.22 Lorena, the Slave
2.1 The Nashville Blues
2.2 The Lover's Warning
2.3 I'm Worried Now
2.4 Take Away This Lonesome Day
2.5 Promise Me You'll Always Be Faithful
2.6 Don't You See That Train
2.7 It's Taken' Me Down
2.8 That Yodelin' Gal- Miss Julie
2.9 I'm Gonna Change My Way
2.10 Happy Hickey- the Hobo
2.11 Lonesome Yodel Blues-No.2
2.12 Put Me on the Trail to Carolina
2.13 My Smokey Mountain Gal
2.14 Take Me Back to the Range
2.15 No Drunkard Can Enter There
2.16 Southern Moon
2.17 False Hearted Girl
2.18 The Budded Rose
2.19 The Blind Child
2.20 Are You Marching with the Saviour
2.21 No One
3.1 Lead Me
3.2 I Need the Prayers of Those I Love
3.3 I've Got the Railroad Blues
3.4 The Weary Lonesome Blues
3.5 Heavenly Light Is Shining on Me
3.6 Wonderful There
3.7 Singing My Troubles Away
3.8 They Say It's Sinful to Flirt
3.9 Till the Roses Bloom Again
3.10 When We Held Our Hymn Books Together
3.11 Hi de Ho Baby Mine
3.12 Goodbye Booze
3.13 Careless Love (Bring My Baby Back)
3.14 In That Vine Covered Chapel in the Valley
3.15 The Cannon Ball
3.16 15 Miles from Birmingham
3.17 Where Is My Sailor Boy
3.18 Just the Same Sweet Thing to Me
3.19 A Better Range Is Home
3.20 Don't Let My Ramblin' Bother Your Mind
3.21 Wabash Blues
3.22 Go Easy Mabel
4.1 Over the Hills
4.2 The Dying Truckdriver
4.3 Scatterbrain Mama
4.4 Happy on the Mississippi Shore
4.5 Rainin' on the Mountain
4.6 See That Coon in the Hickory Tree
4.7 The Storms Are on the Ocean
4.8 Back to Birmingham
4.9 The Eastern Gate
4.10 God Put a Rainbow in the Clouds
4.11 There's Trouble on My Mind Today
4.12 Silver Dollar
4.13 Old Mountain Dew
4.14 In the Blue Hills of Virginia
4.15 Make Room in the Lifeboat for Me
4.16 When It's Time for the Whip-Poor Will to Sing
4.17 Will You Be Lonesome Too?
4.18 Broken Hearted Lover
4.19 I Now Have a Bugle to Play
4.20 Baby Girl
4.21 Gospel Cannonball
4.22 Honey I'm Ramblin Away

The Delmore Brothers: Classic Cuts 1933-1941 - COMPACT DISCS

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