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early November 2011 fortnight’s favourites
For this new rendez-vous, I’ve chosen three tracks from the ’50s, then one from…1978, the remainder being from the ’30s. First, JOHNNY NELMS on Azalea 015/016 (Houston label), « After Today » is his...
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WILEY BARKDULL, Louisiana piano man
WILEY BARKDULL Born circa 1927, Forest Hill, Louisiana The musical career of singer / pianist Wiley Barkdull is virtually inseparable from that of the brothers Rusty and Doug Kershaw. Barkdull’s main...
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Rusty & Doug Kershaw, Louisiana men (1954 -1964)
Douglas James « Doug » Kershaw was born on January 24 of 1936 on a houseboat near Tiel Ridge, Louisiana – a tiny island off the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Russell Lee « Rusty » Kershaw was born on 2...
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Ernie Chaffin, Mississipi hillbilly (1954-58)
Ernie Chaffin’s two Hickory records come from a single session on May 5, 1954 and all the songs were written by Chaffin’s longtime buddy Pee Wee Maddux. Chaffin’s defining moment came with « Feelin’...
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