When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland

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• ASIN: B002QLCRAW
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Editorial Reviews

No telling how much great recorded music was lost to the policy of super-station WLW that prohibited the station's acts from recording. The station boasted a lot of exceptional country music talent over the years, and while the policy was in place all but a handful adhered to the ban. Although the ban was not so formal that it was written in contracts, it was explicitly understood and those who ignored it usually paid the price; Homer and Jethro, for example, were fired after the station became aware that they were recording for King, while their stablemate Hank Penny was effectively elbowed off the station with hostility when he signed with the same label. Far less well known today than either Penny or Homer & Jethro are Eldon Baker & His Brown County Revelers, an infectious, hot string-band with Kentucky roots who came to WLW in 1934 for Indianapolis. Despite an enviable record on the station as one of its most popular hillbilly acts, the Revelers days were numbered after they defiantly signed and recorded for Columbias Vocalion label in 1938. Over 2 days in Chicago, the band recorded some twenty sides. This did not sit well with WLW and not only would the Revelers be gone from the station within a matter of months, the powers at WLW might might have had something to do with the fact that the band did not make any further recordings for Vocalion. Track Listing: Come Along Down To The Old Plantation, You Cant Do Wrong And Get By, Lost John, Chokin The Reeds, I Know There Is Somebody Waiting, When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland, Plodding Along, Its Hard, Froggie Went A Courtin, Dont You Want To Go, I Will Meet You, Happy Cowboy, Roll Along Jordan, One Eyed Sam, Dear Old Dixieland, In The Hills Over There, Sittin Round The Fireside, Little Bonnie, Long Gone From Bowling Green, You Cant Make Me Cry Anymore, Dont Hang Around Me Anymore, Milk Bucket Boogie, Arkansas Traveller, Giving Everything Away, Bile Em Cabbage Down, Vine Street Stomp