Songwriters & Music Lovers:
Here’s another Rattlesnake Hill performance from the Appalachian Jubilee, a live
Country and syndicated radio show hosted from the Capitol Theater, Chambersburg, Pa.
This song, recorded in 1946 and covered by many acts, was written by Gene Autry,
an American singer-songwriter, actor, musician, rodeo performer and business
tycoon who gained fame as a singing cowboy on radio, in movies and television for
more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry owned television and
radio stations in Southern California, and the LA Angels Baseball team (1961-1997).
Autry appeared in 93 films, and between 1950 and 1956 hosted The Gene Autry
Show television series. During the 1930s and 1940s, he personified the straight-
shooting hero — honest, brave, and true — and profoundly touched the lives of
millions of Americans. Autry was also an important pioneering figure in country
music, considered the second major influential artist after Jimmie Rodgers.
This live version follows the arrangement done by the Country Gentlemen in April,
1976 for Rebel Records, cut April 6-7 in Silver Springs MD, and released with
Charlie Waller, Doyle Lawson on Mandolin, Bill Yates on baritone, Bill Holden on
Banjo, Ed Farris on Bass, and Mike Auldridge on Dobro. They “shortened” the
song from Autry’s original arrangement.
Please turn up to get that big stage sound!
Line up:
Dan Cassidy Fiddle
Greg Nelson Bass
Ed Schaeffer Guitar & Lead Vocal
Warren Reeder Dobro & Harmony
To listen, click: http://rattlesnakehill.org/Web_Music/edsmusic.html
Ed
(As always, headphones preferred!)
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