Skillet Lickers, Vol. 5: 1930-1934

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All Music Guide - Arwulf Arwulf
When it came to theatrical comedy skits, no Southern string band of the 1920s and '30s was able to pull them off like Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers. Other groups tried to play the game, but compared with the Lickers, everybody else sounded self-conscious and out of step. Tapping into the years 1930-1934, volume five in Document's complete Skillet Lickers series contains no less than four comedic sketches, each in two parts as originally presented on flipsides of 78 rpm platters. Each follows the formula of jokes and patter interspersed with vigorous bursts of plucking, strumming, and fiddling. If "Jeremiah Hopkins' Store at Sand Mountain" is good fun, the civic ...
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All Music Guide - Arwulf Arwulf
When it came to theatrical comedy skits, no Southern string band of the 1920s and '30s was able to pull them off like Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers. Other groups tried to play the game, but compared with the Lickers, everybody else sounded self-conscious and out of step. Tapping into the years 1930-1934, volume five in Document's complete Skillet Lickers series contains no less than four comedic sketches, each in two parts as originally presented on flipsides of 78 rpm platters. Each follows the formula of jokes and patter interspersed with vigorous bursts of plucking, strumming, and fiddling. If "Jeremiah Hopkins' Store at Sand Mountain" is good fun, the civic themes of census taking and prohibition are treated with cheerful cynicism, as the fruit jar-hefting Lickers generally make it clear that meddlesome strangers need to stay away and mind their own business. "Fiddler's Convention" exists here as parts three and four, indicating that the depiction of jousting musicians was a logical choice for endless revisitation. Speaking of fiddling, this volume also contains several of the Lickers' finest recorded performances, including their masterful rendition of "Sleeping Lulu," a remake of the popular "Bully of the Town," "Ride Old Buck to Water," and "Cackling Hen and Rooster Too." "Miss McLeod's Reel" and "Ricketts Hornpipe" are traditional folk forms tracing directly back to the old country, whipped to a jelly by the Skillet Lickers.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 1/30/2001
  • Label: Document
  • UPC: 714298806021
  • Catalog Number: 8060
  • Sales rank: 112,014

Album Credits

Performance Credits
The Skillet Lickers Primary Artist
Technical Credits
Huddie Ledbetter Composer
Johnny Parth Producer
Tony Russell Liner Notes
Gary Atkinson Executive Producer
Traditional Composer
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