Music · 01/07/2018
BACM 581 - Smilin' Eddie Hill - Mountain Jam.
Friendly-voiced Eddie Hill was a pioneering country music DJ, nowadays best remembered for his compering at WSM-Nashville and the WLAC-TV Country Junction show. But he was also a prolific recording artist, recording for Decca, Mercury, RCA and Columbia. Bear Family and Cattle Records have issued selections of his recordings and we’ve put ‘The best of the rest’on this BACM compilation. Hill always had top session men on his recordings (hear Chet Atkin
Music · 12/18/2017
BACM 316 -Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) - Hillbilly Valley.
Wilfred Arthur Charles Carter (December 18, 1904 – December 5, 1996), professionally known as Wilf Carter in his native Canada and also as Montana Slim in the United States, was a Canadian Country and Western singer, songwriter, guitarist, and yodeller. Widely acknowledged as the father of Canadian country music, Carter was Canada's first country music star, inspiring a generation of young Canadian performers.
Music · 12/17/2017
BACM 411 -Spade Cooley Vol.1 Live 1944-1946
These amazing air checks feature Cooley's classic Columbia Records-era band, with vocals by Tex Williams, Smokey Rogers, Colleen Summers (AKA, Mary Ford, later of the legendary Les Paul & Mary Ford recordings) and others. A particular highlight is the presence of steel guitar wizard Joaquin Murphey heard at his very best. The live setting gives Murphey, fiddling leader Spade and other instrumental stalwarts like electric guitarist Johnny Weis and accor
12/05/2017
BACM 580 V.A. - Country Music From The Pacific Northwest
A big thanks to Dick Heil, musician, collector and historian who years ago put together a compilation of mid ‘40s to mid ‘50s western band recordings from the Pacific North West. Correspondence over the years with British musicologist Kevin Coffey has eventually borne fruit with this BACM collection. featuring some of the biggest stars on the 40s/50s North Western scene as well as some obscure ones. Twenty of the tracks are from Heil’s or
Music · 12/04/2017
BACM 579 V.A. - The Midwestern Hayride
Through the late 1940s and through the ‘50s, the popular Mid Western Hayride, based in Cincinnati, Ohio featured not only an impressive roster of nationally known performers such as Red Foley, Little Jimmie Dickens and Tex Ritter but also the cream of the Cincinnati Country scene. We have decided to showcase some of these lesser-remembered talents; 27
Music · 12/03/2017
BACM 578 Callahan Brothers - Take The News To Mother
BACM’s first Callahan Brothers collection focuses mainly on their 1930s recordings, featuring their close harmony ‘White country yodelling-blues’ style. Songs a mix of old time country and Jimmie Rodgers numbers (several of the latter are adapted and retitled, for example Rodgers’ Mississippi Moon becomes
Music · 11/18/2017
BACM CD 577 The Texas Rangers - Vol.2 (1941-1947)
BACM have at last got around to showcasing the work of Autry Inman, prolific songwriter and a versatile country performer with a distinctive voice. A big talent and undeservedly nowadays largely forgotten; his compositions were recorded by the likes of Johnny Cash, George Jones and Hank Williams.
Music · 11/17/2017
BACM CD 576 Autry Inman - Brown Eyed Baby
BACM have at last got around to showcasing the work of Autry Inman, prolific songwriter and a versatile country performer with a distinctive voice. A big talent and undeservedly nowadays largely forgotten; his compositions were recorded by the likes of Johnny Cash, George Jones and Hank Williams.
Music · 11/16/2017
Nowadays best remembered for his work with Flatt & Scruggs’ Foggy Mountain Boys, Hylo was a superb bluegrass musician (vocals, Guitar, Bass guitar) and songwriter whose career stretched from 1939 to 1980 including a burst of popularity in the early 1960s following his Newport Festival appearances with Earl Scruggs, bringing bluegrass music to new audiences. For our CD we have selected 26 of his best recordings, mainly early 1960s and some from the 1950s. Nice bluegrassy interpretation of T For T
Music · 11/11/2017
Texas Jim Robertson (February 7, 1909- November 11, 1966).
Texas Jim Robertson was a native of Texas as his name might suggest. I started off singing when he aunt invited him out to Charlotte, NC for a visit when he was about sixteen years old. While there, I've got a job singing the old western songs. It was not too long before his fame spread and he was offered to stint with the NBC network.
While I was in New York, I was not only singing, but also taking on drama roles on the radio. RCA Vict