Antedating of "Country and Western" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Eric Nielsen]

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http://www.last.fm/music/Mississippi+Sheiks/_/Yodeling+Fiddling+Blues




On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Eric Nielsen <ericbarnak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is this the one you're thinking of?
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> http://www.last.fm/music/Mississippi+Sheiks/Jazz+Figures+%2F+Mississippi+Sheiks+(1930),+Volume+1
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> 7 MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS: probably Bo or Lonnie Chatman (fiddle); Walter
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> San Antonio, Texas. June 12, 1930
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> 404146-B Yodeling Fiddling Blues (OKeh 8834)
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> http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=157.5;wap2
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> Out in San Antone Texas : a long long ways from home
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> I would love to live there : but I will be all and all
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> My babe says she don't want me : she's calling someone else on
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> I will have to learn : to live out here in San Antone
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> Boys learn to yodel : that's the way to win her home
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> Then you will be the only sheik : it is in San Antone
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> These yodeling blues : make a Texas woman leave her home
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> I see the way you going : you sure won't be here long
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> http://www.dylan61.se/michael%20taft,%20blues%20anthology.txt.WebConcordance/michael%20taft,%20blues%20anthology.txt1.htm#25664
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> It seems Dylan referenced this song in one of his own.
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> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>> Subject:      Re: Antedating of "Country and Western" (UNCLASSIFIED)
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>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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>> > "western" was "western swing" of the Bob Wills variety.
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>> And actual "cowboy (folk)songs" of the kind occasionally covered by
>> Texas bluesmen, "The Old Chisholm Trail" being an easily-found example
>> of this rare and bizarre sub-genre of the blues. I con't know that any
>> of them ever merited Billboard's attention, but they were common on
>> Texas radio and in random oaters, back in the day..
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>> The Mississippi Sheiks even recorded a cowboy song, set in San
>> Antonio, in which they, so to speak, "yodel," as it were, at the
>> dog-walkg-on-its-hind-legs level of skill.
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>> I've heard it only once and I've been trying to find it for dekkids.
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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
>> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> -Mark Twain
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