The Skillet Lickers

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Run Nigger Run 02:47 Tools
Casey Jones 02:44 Tools
Old Joe Clark 02:54 Tools
Dixie 03:13 Tools
Skillet Licker Breakdown 00:38 Tools
Turkey in the Straw 03:11 Tools
Pass Around The Bottle And We'll All Take A Drink 03:02 Tools
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane 03:03 Tools
Bully of the Town 02:59 Tools
Soldier's Joy 03:00 Tools
Wreck of the Old '97 02:54 Tools
Ride Old Buck To Water 02:46 Tools
Dance All Night With a Bottle in Your Hand 02:46 Tools
Alabama Jubilee 03:10 Tools
Ya Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Aroun' 03:07 Tools
Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan 02:49 Tools
She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain 03:00 Tools
WATERMELON ON THE VINE 02:55 Tools
The Girl I Left Behind Me 03:12 Tools
Uncle Bud 03:04 Tools
I Got Mine 02:53 Tools
I Don't Love Nobody 03:01 Tools
Shortening Bread 02:51 Tools
Polly Woddle Doo 03:04 Tools
John Henry (The Steel Drivin' Man) 03:03 Tools
Devilish Mary 03:22 Tools
Rock That Cradle Lucy 02:57 Tools
Rocky Pallet 02:53 Tools
Molly Put the Kettle On 03:11 Tools
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss 03:17 Tools
Hell Broke Loose in Georgia 03:02 Tools
Broken Down Gambler 03:12 Tools
Liberty 03:20 Tools
The Old Gray Mare 03:08 Tools
The Wreck of the Southern Old '97 03:08 Tools
Down Yonder 03:09 Tools
Pretty Little Widow 03:13 Tools
Back Up And Push 03:07 Tools
Sal's Gone to the Cider Mill 03:01 Tools
Rufus 03:06 Tools
Leather Breeches 03:04 Tools
Cumberland Gap On A Buckin' Mule 00:07 Tools
Ida Red 02:50 Tools
Miss Mcleod's Reel 02:56 Tools
Cacklin' Hen And Rooster Too 03:12 Tools
Hawkins' Rag 02:53 Tools
Cackling Hen and Rooster Too 03:14 Tools
Wreck Of The Old 97 [Riley Puckett] 02:54 Tools
Practice Night With The Skillet Lickers - Part 2 03:10 Tools
Nigger In The Woodpile 03:04 Tools
Practice Night With The Skillet Lickers - Part 1 02:58 Tools
Cotton Patch 03:03 Tools
Mississippi Sawyer 02:58 Tools
Tanner's Rag 02:56 Tools
Bully Of The Town No. 2 03:27 Tools
She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountian 03:00 Tools
Tra-Le-La-La 03:22 Tools
Don't You Cry My Honey 03:12 Tools
Black Eyed Susie 03:00 Tools
It's A Long Way To Tipperary 03:08 Tools
Miss McLeods Reel 03:00 Tools
Git Along 03:06 Tools
Paddy Won't You Drink Some Good Old Cider 03:09 Tools
Prohibition - Yes Or No - Part 2 00:00 Tools
Whoa, Mule, Whoa 03:02 Tools
OLD DAN TUCKER 03:08 Tools
Whistlin' Rufus 03:08 Tools
Cumberland Gap 02:54 Tools
Prettiest Little Girl In The County 03:05 Tools
Four Cent Cotton 03:02 Tools
Georgia Waggoner 03:03 Tools
Big Ball In Town 03:00 Tools
Sal Let Me Chaw Your Rosin 02:49 Tools
Ricketts Hornpipe 03:12 Tools
Cotton-Eyed Joe 02:59 Tools
Taking The Census - Part 2 03:29 Tools
Prohibition - Yes Or No - Part 1 00:00 Tools
Old McDonald Had A Farm 03:05 Tools
I Ain't No Better Now 02:58 Tools
Bile Them Cabbage Down 03:04 Tools
Buckin' Mule 03:12 Tools
Keep Your Gal At Home 03:07 Tools
Taking The Census - Part 1 03:24 Tools
Sleeping Lulu 03:09 Tools
Hen Cackle 02:38 Tools
The Darktown Strutters' Ball 02:57 Tools
Fiddlers' Convention - Part 3 03:19 Tools
Tanner's Hornpipe 02:50 Tools
Drink 'Em Down 03:07 Tools
Prosperity And Politics - Part 1 03:42 Tools
Slow Buck 02:58 Tools
Hinkey-Dinkey-Dee 02:39 Tools
Flatwoods 03:03 Tools
Johnson's Old Grey Mule 03:23 Tools
The Old Grey Mare 03:08 Tools
The Wreck Of The Southern Old 97 02:44 Tools
Flop-Eared Mule 02:58 Tools
Mcmichen's Breakdown 02:58 Tools
A Fiddlers' Convention In Georgia - Part 1 03:00 Tools
Settin' In The Chimney Jamb 02:50 Tools
A Fiddlers' Convention In Georgia - Part 2 02:50 Tools
Possum Hunt On Stump House Mountain - Part 1 02:59 Tools
SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME 03:06 Tools
Hog Killing Day - Part 1 00:00 Tools
Fiddlers' Convention - Part 4 03:27 Tools
It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' 02:57 Tools
Hog Killing Day - Part 2 00:00 Tools
Cripple Creek 03:08 Tools
Possum Hunt On Stump House Mountain - Part 2 02:55 Tools
Devlish Mary 03:11 Tools
Going On Down Town 03:06 Tools
Charming Betsy 02:51 Tools
THERE'LL BE A HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN TONIGHT 03:19 Tools
Jeremiah Hopkins' Store At Sand Mountain - Part 2 03:07 Tools
HELL'S BROKE LOOSE IN GEORGIA 03:05 Tools
The Rovin' Gambler 03:06 Tools
Cotton Baggin' 03:07 Tools
Never Seen The Like Since Gettin' Upstairs 03:01 Tools
Prosperity And Politics - Part 2 03:08 Tools
Skip To My Lou My Darling 03:04 Tools
Wreek of the Old 97 02:46 Tools
Georgia Man 03:00 Tools
Giddap Napoleon 03:10 Tools
Cumberland Gap / Gid Tanner's Buckin' Mule / Hen Cackle (medley) 06:50 Tools
Nancy Rollin 03:26 Tools
Smoke Behind The Clouds 03:03 Tools
Four Thousand Years Ago 03:14 Tools
SOLDIERS JOY 03:10 Tools
Sugar In The Gourd 03:11 Tools
A Day At The County Fair - Part 1 00:00 Tools
A Day At The County Fair - Part 2 03:20 Tools
A Night In A Blind Tiger - Part 1 03:20 Tools
Soldier, Will You Marry Me 03:16 Tools
Georgia Wagner 03:05 Tools
Jeremiah Hopkins' Store At Sand Mountain - Part 1 03:03 Tools
Cotton Eyed Joe 02:55 Tools
HOG KILLING DAY PT 2 03:17 Tools
A Night In a Blind Tiger - Part 2 03:20 Tools
Kickapoo Medicine Show - Part 1 03:17 Tools
Jeremiah Hopkins' Store At Sand Mountian - Part 1 03:17 Tools
New Arkansas Traveller 03:07 Tools
A Bee Hunt On Hill For Sartin Creek - Part 1 03:03 Tools
Bonepart's Retreat 03:13 Tools
Billy in the Lowground 03:12 Tools
Kickapoo Medicine Show - Part 2 03:23 Tools
Arkansas Traveler 04:09 Tools
Jeremiah Hopkins' Store At Sand Mountian - Part 2 03:23 Tools
Listen to the Mockingbird 03:47 Tools
run, nigger, run! 02:46 Tools
A Bee Hunt On Hill For Sartin Creek - Part 2 03:13 Tools
Out of My Bondage 03:01 Tools
Hop Light, Ladies 01:57 Tools
Four Night's Experience 03:13 Tools
I Wish I'd Bought a Half a Pint and Stayed in the Wagon Yard 02:35 Tools
Goodbye, Little Bonnie, Blue Eyes 03:10 Tools
Cumberland Gap on a Buckin' Mule (feat. Gid Tanner) 02:48 Tools
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad 02:50 Tools
Lonesome Hungry Hash House 02:29 Tools
Paddy Won't You Drink Some Good Old Cider (feat. Gid Tanner) 03:11 Tools
Run Nigger, Run 02:46 Tools
Run N****r Run 02:46 Tools
BONEPARTE'S RETREAT 02:46 Tools
05. ride old buck to water 02:46 Tools
Possum Hunt on Stump House Mountain part 2 02:58 Tools
Practice Night With Skillet Lickers (Part 1) 02:58 Tools
Nancy Rollin' 02:58 Tools
03. soldier's joy 02:46 Tools
09. liberty 02:46 Tools
08. fly around my pretty little miss 02:46 Tools
Casey Jones - The Skillet Lickers 02:55 Tools
Flop-Earred Mule 02:55 Tools
N****r In the Woodpile 02:58 Tools
04. sal's gone to the cider mill 02:55 Tools
PASS AROUND THE BOTTLE 02:58 Tools
Run, Niger, Run! 01:23 Tools
07. hell broke loose in georgia 02:58 Tools
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The Skillet Lickers were an old-time band from Georgia, USA. When Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett signed to Columbia in 1924, they created the label's earliest so-called "hillbilly" recording. Gid Tanner formed The Skillet Lickers in 1926. The first line-up was Gid Tanner, Riley Puckett, Clayton McMichen and Fate Norris. Between 1926 and 1931 they recorded 88 sides for Columbia. Eighty-two of these were commercially issued. Later members were Lowe Stokes, Bert Layne, Hoke Rice, Arthur Tanner and Hoyt "Slim" Bryant. Their best-selling single was "Down Yonder", a hillbilly breakdown, in 1934 on RCA Victor. They disbanded in 1931, but reformed for occasional recordings after a couple of years with a changing line-up. "Back Up and Push" was another well-known recording. The Skillet Lickers, together with fellow North Georgians Fiddlin' John Carson and the Georgia Yellow Hammers, made Atlanta and North Georgia an early center of old-time stringband music, especially the hard-driving fiddle-based style employed by each of these performers. Clayton McMichen (1900–1970) was the lead fiddler. He was known as "Mac". At the age of 11 he learned to play the fiddle from his uncle and father. Two years later, in 1913, his family moved to Atlanta, Georgia where Mac made his living as an automobile mechanic. In 1918 he formed a band called "The Hometown Boys" consisting of himself and Charles Whitten on fiddles, Boss Hawkins and Mike Whitten on guitars and Ezra "Ted" Hawkins on mandolin. The Hometown Boys made their first radio debut on September 18, 1922. In 1931, he performed with the "Georgia Wildcats" on their first recording session for Columbia Records. He was National Fiddling Champion from 1934 to 1949. Mac made his last recordings in 1945, although he continued to perform until 1955 when he retired. His most notable composition was "Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia", later recorded by Jimmie Rodgers in 1932. By the time the folk revival was under way in the late 50s, his irritation with being asked to play old-fashioned material was unconcealed. At the Newport Festival[disambiguation needed] he spoke out on stage of his disdain for the Skillet Lickers. However, the recordings he made with that band are the only ones of his in print. In the early 30s the band occasionally toured without Gid Tanner, and without Puckett, with McMichen in charge instead. On these occasions Bert Layne would black-up for on stage comedy. Fate Norris, (Singleton Lafayette Norris) of Dalton, Georgia played the banjo, and harmonica. He lived in Resaca, Georgia. He had previously performed as a one man band and had made a device with strings and levers which he played with his feet. Together Fate and Gid did blackface comedy. Norris made some recordings under his own name and was only occasionally a member of the band. By 1931 he appears to have disappeared from the line-up, to be replaced by Gid on banjo. He later died on stage in Subligna, Georgia on November 11, 1944. Lowe Stokes (Marcus Lowell Stokes 1898-1983), who played the fiddle, was born in Elijay, Georgia. A superb fiddler, considered McMichen's equal and one of the finest recorded fiddlers of the time, he won many fiddle championships in the region. Stokes lost his right hand to a shotgun blast in the late 1920s, in the midst of the Skillet Lickers' popularity. He eventually began fiddling again using a prosthetic attachment to hold his bow, and he can be heard playing on some later Skillet Licker records in this manner (for example, on "Broken Down Gambler"). Later, Stokes moved to Chouteau, Oklahoma where he died. Bert Layne (fiddle), brother-in-law of McMichen, played occasionally. His fiddle had a lower sound than Tanner or McMichen, but the combination of three fiddles marks out the group from almost everyone else at the time. On the group's later records, the three-fiddle lineup was usually composed of McMichen, Layne, and Lowe Stokes, playing tightly in unison or in harmony, while Gid Tanner switched to banjo. Arthur Tanner (brother of Gid) played banjo and guitar. Riley Puckett recorded solo for Victor and Decca in the 30s and early 40s. He also belonged to a trio called "Bert Layne and his Mountaineers". After 1931 the group occasionally consisted of Riley Puckett on guitar, Gordon Tanner on fiddle, Ezra "Ted" Hawkins on mandolin and even record producer Dan Hornsby on vocals. There are recordings by a group called the "Arthur Tanner and the Cornshuckers" which may have contained Gid Tanner. Unfortunately the virtuosity of Puckett tended to pull in a different direction from that of Mac. Their best recordings were probably their last ones, from 1931. The band recorded in two long recording sessions per year, from 1926 to 1931. Few members of the group were full-time professional musicians. Clayton McMichen was an auto mechanic. McMichen was a welder. Tanner was a chicken farmer. Riley Puckett toured as a musician with his own tent show. His technical virtuosity marks him out as one of the best guitarists of the 20s and early 30s. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.