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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1930s) In 1934 Joseph E. Mainer (1898–1971) and his brother Wade (b. 1907), playing fiddle and banjo respectively, secured a slot on WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina. The group they assembled – adding singer-guitarists Daddy John Love and Zeke Morris – was an immediate hit, not only on radio but also on Bluebird Records with ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, consultant editor Bob Allen

player Pete Kirby (1911–2002), professionally known as Bashful Brother Oswald, both of whom would stay with him for decades. In the tradition of earlier aggregations like J. E. Mainer’s Mountaineers, The Smoky Mountain Boys were less a band than a revue act. In between the songs, Howdy would be featured on a fiddle breakdown, Oswald on a ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, consultant editor Bob Allen

is always ready for frying a hoecake or a slice of country ham. Styles & Forms | Early Years of Hillbilly | Country Personalities | J.E. Mainer & His Mountaineers | Early Years of Hillbilly | Country ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, consultant editor Bob Allen

pop hits he’d learned on the vaudeville stage as well as spinning out vivid originals like ‘Farm Relief’ and ‘From Earth To Heaven’. Music From The Mountains J. E. Mainer’s Mountaineers, from North Carolina, were foremost among the numerous guitar-fiddle-banjo Appalachian string bands that were popular in the 1930s. J. E.’s brother Wade left The Mountaineers in 1936 ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

alike. In doing so, it groomed a new generation of media-conscious artists such as Lulu Belle And Scotty, Patsy Montana And The Prairie Ramblers, J. E. Mainer’s Mountaineers and The Sons Of The Pioneers. As the old-timers blinked and hung up their fiddles, country music poised itself for a leap into a bright post-war future. ‘Country music ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, consultant editor Bob Allen
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