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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
Georgia to Tennessee: CHARLIE ‘Peanut’ FAIRCLOTH
My first exposure to Charlie Faircloth was on late '70s, when I'd put my hands on the fabulous hillbilly tapes of Bert Martins. Things like "Coffee, Cigarettes and Tears", "Mississipi River Blues" made me wanting for more. It was however not before...
Late September 2021 bopping fortnight’s favorites
The TURNER BROTHERS (Red & Lige) do provide a « hillbilly novelty » (as shown on the label) which is a fine bopper. They appear also on Radio Artist 234 « Boog-Boog-Boogie »), Bullet 601 (« Guitar Reel »), as backing group...
Early September 2021 bopping fortnight’s favorites
Fortnight early september 2021t BOB PERRY on the Chicago label Bandera ( 1305) does provide us with a great, fast Country-rocker in 1960-61, « Weary Blues, Goodbye ». Fabulous rhythm guitar, assured vocal, and a out-of-this world steel-guitar...
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...