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Call it Hillbilly Bop, Country Boogie, even Rockabilly, it’s all the same music, developping itself from ’30’s Country Blues or Western Swing plus an heavy dose of Boogie Woogie. It can be found in all Southern States, also in California and as far as Indiana or Pennsylvania, as much issued on major record labels (RCA, Decca, Columbia, M-G-M) as much, and much more actually, on hundred small labels, often one-off or with the odd issue.
Artists (more than once launching their own label) then tried hard (as today) to litterally sell themselves giving away their records after the show or to local D.J. to be promoted. That’s the story of their little records bopping.org is telling you. Too numerous artists already featured to mention (ca. 450) ; lot more to come. So all you got to do is to type « bopping.org » in your research bar and treat yourself to a musical trip from the ’40s to the ’60s.
Hillbilly Boogie
Early August 2021 bopping fortnight’s favorites
As on early August I'll be far from home (holidays), I post this fortnight with two days before the actual date. On the Kentucky Acme label first, JESSE COATES does provide us with a fast fiddle-led ditty, his personal version of the old-timey...
Late August 2021 bopping fortnight’s favorites
Howdeee folks ! This time I'm offering you Hillbilly mostly from the '40s. WOODY MASHBURN does an instrumental, a nice combination of piano, guitar and steel in « Bob's Boogie » (Grand 101). He was also on Grand 102 (title unknown)....
Walter “Tex” Dixon: from Hillbilly Bop to mainstream Country (1950 to Seventies)
Mason Dixon, here is an artist who went under a number of different sobriquets, billed variously during his career as “Tex” Dixon, Walter Dixon, Walter “Tex” Dixon, and of course Mason Dixon. Although he is not the Mason Dixon who recorded for the Memphis...
early July 2021 bopping fortnight’s favorites
Enroute for the Fortnight (early July 2021). Lo of boppers ; some rockers. download New Jersey's HAROLD BAILEY & The Country Drifters do present their only issue ever on Gira # 300. Both are superior boppers. The main instruments are steel...
late June 2021 bopping fortnigh’s favorites
Howdy folks ! This is the new selection of bopping fortnight's favorites : no less than 11 or 12 tracks this time, trying to recapture all those 5 past months when bopping.org was sleeping and sick in the hospital . We begin...
Indiana Rockabilly (Bluegrass too: The BLANKENSHIP BROTHERS
Indiana isn't the first American state you'd associate with primitive Rockabilly, but it was there, hidden among the steelworks and the industrial areas. Indianapolis was seething with young, spotty hopefulls,, all wanting to be Elvis and looking more like...