THE DELMORE BROTHERS
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Data de publicació: 5 de nov. 2015 by Chris Clem
This was probably the Delmore brothers best known songs.Most of these were recorded by King Records from 1947 - 1952 when Rabon Delmore died.Some of the all acoustic songs are earlier masters that King Records probably bought.The Delmore's had already been recording since 1931.Having recorded hundreds of songs and were very well known.Yet some of there best known songs came from this short period when they were signed to King Records.You just don't see artist who just get better and better late in there careers.When you look at that time period you begin to realize how advance and talented they really were.
When I first bought this LP side 1 would not play at all (super noisy)and just UN-listenable.I could not figure out why, it looked very clean.One day I put my 78 cartridge and stylus on the turntable and it played fine.So side one was cut with the wider 78 RPM grooves (first time I have ever seen that on an LP) One other odd thing there most famous song (Blue Stay Away From Me) is normally in the key of E, but on this LP it is in Eb.It appears to be the same take just slower.King did this pitch variation on several of the Delmore songs through the years (I have never heard why). Still overall there is not a bad song on this LP from a very talented duo.
Blues Stay Away From Me
Sweet Sweet Thing
Everybody Loves Her
I'll Be There
Blues You Never Loose
Freight Train Boogie
Please be my Sunshine
Muddy Water
Field Hand Man
Midnight Train
Born to be Blue
Brown's Ferry Blues
Hillbilly Boogie
Good time Saturday Night
There's Something About Love
Steamboat Boogie
--------------------------------------------------------------------------Alton Delmore (December 25, 1908 – June 8, 1964) and Rabon Delmore (December 3, 1916 – December 4, 1952), billed as The Delmore Brothers, were country music pioneer singer-songwriters and musicians who were stars of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s.The Delmore Brothers, together with other brother duos such as the Louvin Brothers, the Blue Sky Boys, the Monroe Brothers (Birch Monroe, Charlie Monroe and Bill Monroe), the McGee Brothers, and The Stanley Brothers, had a profound impact on the history of country music and American popular music.
The brothers were born into poverty in Elkmont, Alabama, as the sons of tenant farmers amid a rich tradition of gospel music and Appalachian folk. Their mother, Mollie Delmore, wrote and sang gospel songs for their church. The Delmores blended gospel-style harmonies with the quicker guitar work of traditional folk music and the blues to help create the still-emerging genre of country. In addition to the regular six-string acoustic guitar, the duo was one of the few to use the rare tenor guitar, a four-string instrument that had primarily been used previously in vaudeville shows.
In 1925, 16-year-old Alton wrote his first song ("Bound for the Shore"), which he co-wrote with his mother. It was published by Athens Music Co.
The Brothers did their first recording session for Columbia Records in 1931, recording "I've Got the Kansas City Blues" and "Alabama Lullaby," which became their theme song. They signed a contract with Victor's budget label Bluebird in 1933 and became regulars on the Grand Ole Opry. Within three years, they had become the most popular act on the show.Disagreements with Opry management led to the brothers leaving the show in 1939. While they continued to play and record music throughout the 1940s, they never achieved the same level of success they had with the Grand Ole Opry.
In 1941, their song "When It's Time for the Whippoorwill to Sing" made the Billboard "Hillbilly" top three.
Their "Freight Train Boogie" (recorded for the King label in 1946) is regarded by some as the first rock and roll record.[who?] Their best-known song, "Blues Stay Away From Me" (also on King, 1949), was covered by Johnny Burnette and The Rock and Roll Trio, Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, The Louvin Brothers, The Browns, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Doc Watson, The Notting Hillbillies, Marshall Chapman, and The Everly Brothers.
Over the course of their careers, the Delmores wrote more than one thousand songs. Some of the most popular were "Brown's Ferry Blues," "Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar" and "Fifteen Miles from Birmingham."
Rabon died of lung cancer in 1952, a day after his 36th birthday. Following Rabon's death, Alton suffered a heart attack, the loss of his father and his daughter Susan, all within a three-year period. He moved back to Huntsville, Alabama. He taught some guitar, did odd jobs, and devoted his creative energies to writing prose. He wrote a series of short stories and his autobiography, Truth is Stranger than Publicity, published posthumously in 1977 by the Country Music Foundation.
Legacy
The Delmore Brothers were inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. Their pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
Bob Dylan was quoted in the Chicago Tribune, on November 10, 1985 as saying "The Delmore Brothers, God, I really loved them! I think they've influenced every harmony I've ever tried to sing."
