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The Skillet Lickers Vol. 5 1930 -1934 £7.49

FEATURED ARTIST / S

Skillet Lickers

Clayton McMichen

Riley Puckett

Gid Tanner

Lowe Stokes

Bert Layne

Norris Fate

Oscar Ford

Tom Dorsey

Gordon Tanner

Ted Hawkins

TRACK LIST

The Skillet-Lickers 01 - Taking the census - part 1 02 - Taking the census - part 2 03 - Jeremiah Hopkins` Store at sand mountain - part 1 04 - Jeremiah Hopkins` Store at sand mountain - part 2 05 - Ride old buck to water 06 - Don`t you cry my honey 07 - Cacklin` hen and rooster too 08 - Ricketts hornpipe 09 - Bully of the town no. 2 10 - Broken down gambler 11 - Prohibition - yes or no - part 1 12 - Prohibition - yes or no - part 2 13 - Fiddlers` convention - part 3 14 - Fiddlers` convention - part 4 15 - Miss McLeods reel 16 - Four cent cotton 17 - Molly put the kettle on 18 - Sleeping Lulu 19 - McMichen`s breakdown 20 - Whistlin` Rufus 21 - Georgia waggoner 22 - Mississippi Sawyer.

This is the fifth of six volumes featuring the complete recorded works of The Skillet Lickers. The 6 volume set covers some of the finest, and some of the rarest, hillbilly and string band recordings of what is often called the golden age of old-time music. Four years after making their first recordings the Skillet Lickers returned to the studios in Atlanta to record once more. Over the years they had garnered as many sales with their comic sketches as they had with their purely musical recordings, quite a unique feat. This CD kicks off with more sketches, "Taking The Census" and "Jeremiah Hopkins' Store At Sand". Both of these sold reasonably well and during the slump experienced by the record companies the sketches continued to sell better than the musical recordings. In October 1931 the Skillet Lickers gathered for the last time to record six breakdowns which included one of their finest recordings, "Molly Put The Kettle On". The combination of sliding sales figures and musical incompatibility brought the original line up of the Skillet Lickers to an end as the members went off to pursue their preferred musical interests. Somewhere along the way the name "Skillet Lickers" had not been protected by Copyright and in 1934 the name came to prominence once more but this time with Riley Puckett, Gid Tanner, Gid's son Gordon on fiddle and mandolin player Ted Hawkins making up the band. Includes informative booklet notes by Tony Russell with bibliography and full discographical details.