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Tuesday 12 October 2010

RED BARN 1192


RED BARN RH 1192
BYRON PARKER’S HILLBILLIES
I Don’t Love Nobody (1192.A)
(Lew Sully) (No Publisher Noted)
Those Blues Don’t Worry Me (1192.B)
(Tommy Faile) (No Publisher Noted)


6 comments:

  1. Wasn't Byron Parker the announcer of the Monroe Brotehrs and the leader of his own band, Byron Parker's Hillbillies? I thought he died in 1939. Red Barn was active at least between 1948-1951. Seems that the Hillbillies kept on playing without Parker... do you have any info on that?

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  2. Byron Parker recorded post war, from memory he had a few releases on the DeLUXE label, which probably pre date this RED BARN release.

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  3. Well, I think you're right. Parker died in 1948 and after his death, the Hillbillies (also called Mountaineers in later days as I learned) became the Hired Hands. So these recordings may have been cut around 1948.

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  4. Yep - he was very much alive. Most of the fine 1940 Bluebird sides were reissued on an Old Homestead LP appropiately titled Bluegrass Roots. I believe an expanded version is now on CD.
    Dave Sax.

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  5. This would be Snuffy Jenkins on banjo, so the recording is likely 1939-1940

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  6. My uncle was Byron Parker he also had a stand in guitar player name Floyd Lacewell does anyone know what happened to Floyd

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