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The Skillet Lickers. The Skillet Lickers were an old-time band from Georgia, United States. When Gid Tanner teamed up with blind guitarist Riley Puckett and signed to Columbia in 1924, [1] they created the label's earliest so-called "hillbilly" recording. Gid Tanner formed The Skillet Lickers in 1926. [1]
Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers, RCA Victor EPA-5069 (1958) Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers, Folk Song Society of Minnesota 15001-D (1962) The Skillet Lickers: Vol. 1, County 506 (196?) The Skillet Lickers: Vol. 2, County 526 (1973) Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers, Hear These New Southern Fiddle and Guitar Records Rounder 1005 (1973)
Puckett was a charter member of the influential string band Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, and continued to record with the group through their last session in 1934. [2] Puckett recorded as a solo artist into the early 1940s, creating a discography of more than 200 records on such labels as Columbia, Decca, and Bluebird. [1]
Cripple Creek, performed by Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers (1929) "Cripple Creek" is an Appalachian-style old time tune and folk song, often played on the fiddle or banjo, listed as number 3434 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The lyrics are probably no older than the year 1900, and the tune is of unknown origin.
In 1926, "Turkey in the Straw" was recorded by the old-time band Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett. [45] The full melody is quoted in a fiddle and whistling solo in the "Skip to My Lou" number from the 1944 musical film Meet Me in St. Louis starring Judy Garland. [46]
Big bands such as the Count Basie Orchestra and the Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded on 78s, but so did the likes of Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, an old time Georgia band; Big Chief Henry's ...
The oldest version listed in The Traditional Ballad Index, is the Sam Patterson Trio's "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," released on the Edison label in 1925, [12] followed by a version recorded by Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers in 1927. These recordings may be the first known versions to use the now standard tune, and the first to name the ...
Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers - The Very Best Of (1930) [6] Harry Belafonte - Mark Twain and Other Folk Favorites (1954) and Legends Day O (2012) [7] Isla Cameron - Through Bushes and Briars (1956) [8] [9] Bandogg - Bandoggs (1978) Vic Shepherd and John Bowden - A Motty Down (1982) Brass Monkey - Sound and Rumour (1998)