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22017948 | Play | Run Nigger Run | 02:47 Tools | |
22017951 | Play | Casey Jones | 02:44 Tools | |
22017954 | Play | Old Joe Clark | 02:54 Tools | |
22017953 | Play | Dixie | 03:13 Tools | |
22017971 | Play | Skillet Licker Breakdown | 00:38 Tools | |
77183233 | Play | Turkey in the Straw | 03:11 Tools | |
22017960 | Play | Pass Around The Bottle And We'll All Take A Drink | 03:02 Tools | |
22017949 | Play | Hand Me Down My Walking Cane | 03:03 Tools | |
77183234 | Play | Bully of the Town | 02:59 Tools | |
22017955 | Play | Soldier's Joy | 03:00 Tools | |
22017977 | Play | Wreck of the Old '97 | 02:54 Tools | |
59639243 | Play | Ride Old Buck To Water | 02:46 Tools | |
77183235 | Play | Dance All Night With a Bottle in Your Hand | 02:46 Tools | |
22017964 | Play | Alabama Jubilee | 03:10 Tools | |
22017965 | Play | Ya Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Aroun' | 03:07 Tools | |
22017957 | Play | Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan | 02:49 Tools | |
22018008 | Play | She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain | 03:00 Tools | |
22017966 | Play | WATERMELON ON THE VINE | 02:55 Tools | |
22018006 | Play | The Girl I Left Behind Me | 03:12 Tools | |
22017963 | Play | Uncle Bud | 03:04 Tools | |
22017967 | Play | I Got Mine | 02:53 Tools | |
22017968 | Play | I Don't Love Nobody | 03:01 Tools | |
22017983 | Play | Shortening Bread | 02:51 Tools | |
22017970 | Play | Polly Woddle Doo | 03:04 Tools | |
22017969 | Play | John Henry (The Steel Drivin' Man) | 03:03 Tools | |
22018019 | Play | Devilish Mary | 03:22 Tools | |
22017959 | Play | Rock That Cradle Lucy | 02:57 Tools | |
22017956 | Play | Rocky Pallet | 02:53 Tools | |
22017958 | Play | Molly Put the Kettle On | 03:11 Tools | |
22017975 | Play | Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss | 03:17 Tools | |
22017996 | Play | Hell Broke Loose in Georgia | 03:02 Tools | |
22017981 | Play | Broken Down Gambler | 03:12 Tools | |
22017980 | Play | Liberty | 03:20 Tools | |
22018016 | Play | The Old Gray Mare | 03:08 Tools | |
59639244 | Play | The Wreck of the Southern Old '97 | 03:08 Tools | |
22017961 | Play | Down Yonder | 03:09 Tools | |
22018017 | Play | Pretty Little Widow | 03:13 Tools | |
22018043 | Play | Back Up And Push | 03:07 Tools | |
22017979 | Play | Sal's Gone to the Cider Mill | 03:01 Tools | |
22017973 | Play | Rufus | 03:06 Tools | |
22017974 | Play | Leather Breeches | 03:04 Tools | |
22018072 | Play | Cumberland Gap On A Buckin' Mule | 00:07 Tools | |
22017989 | Play | Ida Red | 02:50 Tools | |
22018055 | Play | Miss Mcleod's Reel | 02:56 Tools | |
22018005 | Play | Cacklin' Hen And Rooster Too | 03:12 Tools | |
22017972 | Play | Hawkins' Rag | 02:53 Tools | |
22018037 | Play | Cackling Hen and Rooster Too | 03:14 Tools | |
22017976 | Play | Wreck Of The Old 97 [Riley Puckett] | 02:54 Tools | |
22017994 | Play | Practice Night With The Skillet Lickers - Part 2 | 03:10 Tools | |
22017998 | Play | Nigger In The Woodpile | 03:04 Tools | |
22018092 | Play | Practice Night With The Skillet Lickers - Part 1 | 02:58 Tools | |
22018048 | Play | Cotton Patch | 03:03 Tools | |
22017987 | Play | Mississippi Sawyer | 02:58 Tools | |
22017984 | Play | Tanner's Rag | 02:56 Tools | |
22018056 | Play | Bully Of The Town No. 2 | 03:27 Tools | |
22018062 | Play | She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountian | 03:00 Tools | |
22018080 | Play | Tra-Le-La-La | 03:22 Tools | |
22018007 | Play | Don't You Cry My Honey | 03:12 Tools | |
22018050 | Play | Black Eyed Susie | 03:00 Tools | |
22018001 | Play | It's A Long Way To Tipperary | 03:08 Tools | |
22017978 | Play | Miss McLeods Reel | 03:00 Tools | |
22018003 | Play | Git Along | 03:06 Tools | |
22017985 | Play | Paddy Won't You Drink Some Good Old Cider | 03:09 Tools | |
22018060 | Play | Prohibition - Yes Or No - Part 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
22017997 | Play | Whoa, Mule, Whoa | 03:02 Tools | |
22018045 | Play | OLD DAN TUCKER | 03:08 Tools | |
22018014 | Play | Whistlin' Rufus | 03:08 Tools | |
22018030 | Play | Cumberland Gap | 02:54 Tools | |
22018049 | Play | Prettiest Little Girl In The County | 03:05 Tools | |
22018018 | Play | Four Cent Cotton | 03:02 Tools | |
22018022 | Play | Georgia Waggoner | 03:03 Tools | |
22018012 | Play | Big Ball In Town | 03:00 Tools | |
22017982 | Play | Sal Let Me Chaw Your Rosin | 02:49 Tools | |
22018075 | Play | Ricketts Hornpipe | 03:12 Tools | |
22018053 | Play | Cotton-Eyed Joe | 02:59 Tools | |
22018059 | Play | Taking The Census - Part 2 | 03:29 Tools | |
22018040 | Play | Prohibition - Yes Or No - Part 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
22018054 | Play | Old McDonald Had A Farm | 03:05 Tools | |
22018094 | Play | I Ain't No Better Now | 02:58 Tools | |
22018066 | Play | Bile Them Cabbage Down | 03:04 Tools | |
22017993 | Play | Buckin' Mule | 03:12 Tools | |
22018011 | Play | Keep Your Gal At Home | 03:07 Tools | |
22018051 | Play | Taking The Census - Part 1 | 03:24 Tools | |
22017992 | Play | Sleeping Lulu | 03:09 Tools | |
22018036 | Play | Hen Cackle | 02:38 Tools | |
22018034 | Play | The Darktown Strutters' Ball | 02:57 Tools | |
22018057 | Play | Fiddlers' Convention - Part 3 | 03:19 Tools | |
22018024 | Play | Tanner's Hornpipe | 02:50 Tools | |
22018046 | Play | Drink 'Em Down | 03:07 Tools | |
22017990 | Play | Prosperity And Politics - Part 1 | 03:42 Tools | |
22018115 | Play | Slow Buck | 02:58 Tools | |
22018091 | Play | Hinkey-Dinkey-Dee | 02:39 Tools | |
22018067 | Play | Flatwoods | 03:03 Tools | |
22018064 | Play | Johnson's Old Grey Mule | 03:23 Tools | |
22018090 | Play | The Old Grey Mare | 03:08 Tools | |
22018002 | Play | The Wreck Of The Southern Old 97 | 02:44 Tools | |
22018110 | Play | Flop-Eared Mule | 02:58 Tools | |
77183236 | Play | Mcmichen's Breakdown | 02:58 Tools | |
22017991 | Play | A Fiddlers' Convention In Georgia - Part 1 | 03:00 Tools | |
22018117 | Play | Settin' In The Chimney Jamb | 02:50 Tools | |
89648335 | Play | A Fiddlers' Convention In Georgia - Part 2 | 02:50 Tools | |
22018082 | Play | Possum Hunt On Stump House Mountain - Part 1 | 02:59 Tools | |
22017999 | Play | SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME | 03:06 Tools | |
22018061 | Play | Hog Killing Day - Part 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
22018035 | Play | Fiddlers' Convention - Part 4 | 03:27 Tools | |
22018000 | Play | It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' | 02:57 Tools | |
22018028 | Play | Hog Killing Day - Part 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
22018033 | Play | Cripple Creek | 03:08 Tools | |
22018116 | Play | Possum Hunt On Stump House Mountain - Part 2 | 02:55 Tools | |
22017986 | Play | Devlish Mary | 03:11 Tools | |
22018065 | Play | Going On Down Town | 03:06 Tools | |
22018113 | Play | Charming Betsy | 02:51 Tools | |
22018083 | Play | THERE'LL BE A HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN TONIGHT | 03:19 Tools | |
59639246 | Play | Jeremiah Hopkins' Store At Sand Mountain - Part 2 | 03:07 Tools | |
22018087 | Play | HELL'S BROKE LOOSE IN GEORGIA | 03:05 Tools | |
22018039 | Play | The Rovin' Gambler | 03:06 Tools | |
22018027 | Play | Cotton Baggin' | 03:07 Tools | |
22018047 | Play | Never Seen The Like Since Gettin' Upstairs | 03:01 Tools | |
59639247 | Play | Prosperity And Politics - Part 2 | 03:08 Tools | |
22018042 | Play | Skip To My Lou My Darling | 03:04 Tools | |
77183237 | Play | Wreek of the Old 97 | 02:46 Tools | |
22018081 | Play | Georgia Man | 03:00 Tools | |
22018111 | Play | Giddap Napoleon | 03:10 Tools | |
22018009 | Play | Cumberland Gap / Gid Tanner's Buckin' Mule / Hen Cackle (medley) | 06:50 Tools | |
22017988 | Play | Nancy Rollin | 03:26 Tools | |
22018105 | Play | Smoke Behind The Clouds | 03:03 Tools | |
22018079 | Play | Four Thousand Years Ago | 03:14 Tools | |
59639248 | Play | SOLDIERS JOY | 03:10 Tools | |
22018004 | Play | Sugar In The Gourd | 03:11 Tools | |
22018026 | Play | A Day At The County Fair - Part 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
22018041 | Play | A Day At The County Fair - Part 2 | 03:20 Tools | |
89648336 | Play | A Night In A Blind Tiger - Part 1 | 03:20 Tools | |
22018029 | Play | Soldier, Will You Marry Me | 03:16 Tools | |
22018021 | Play | Georgia Wagner | 03:05 Tools | |
59639252 | Play | Jeremiah Hopkins' Store At Sand Mountain - Part 1 | 03:03 Tools | |
59639259 | Play | Cotton Eyed Joe | 02:55 Tools | |
59639251 | Play | HOG KILLING DAY PT 2 | 03:17 Tools | |
59639250 | Play | A Night In a Blind Tiger - Part 2 | 03:20 Tools | |
22018010 | Play | Kickapoo Medicine Show - Part 1 | 03:17 Tools | |
22018076 | Play | Jeremiah Hopkins' Store At Sand Mountian - Part 1 | 03:17 Tools | |
22018058 | Play | New Arkansas Traveller | 03:07 Tools | |
22018069 | Play | A Bee Hunt On Hill For Sartin Creek - Part 1 | 03:03 Tools | |
22018097 | Play | Bonepart's Retreat | 03:13 Tools | |
22017995 | Play | Billy in the Lowground | 03:12 Tools | |
22018078 | Play | Kickapoo Medicine Show - Part 2 | 03:23 Tools | |
22018023 | Play | Arkansas Traveler | 04:09 Tools | |
22018077 | Play | Jeremiah Hopkins' Store At Sand Mountian - Part 2 | 03:23 Tools | |
22018073 | Play | Listen to the Mockingbird | 03:47 Tools | |
22018015 | Play | run, nigger, run! | 02:46 Tools | |
22018107 | Play | A Bee Hunt On Hill For Sartin Creek - Part 2 | 03:13 Tools | |
22018071 | Play | Out of My Bondage | 03:01 Tools | |
22018068 | Play | Hop Light, Ladies | 01:57 Tools | |
22018038 | Play | Four Night's Experience | 03:13 Tools | |
22018044 | Play | I Wish I'd Bought a Half a Pint and Stayed in the Wagon Yard | 02:35 Tools | |
22018031 | Play | Goodbye, Little Bonnie, Blue Eyes | 03:10 Tools | |
22018102 | Play | Cumberland Gap on a Buckin' Mule (feat. Gid Tanner) | 02:48 Tools | |
22018025 | Play | Going Down the Road Feeling Bad | 02:50 Tools | |
22018074 | Play | Lonesome Hungry Hash House | 02:29 Tools | |
22018106 | Play | Paddy Won't You Drink Some Good Old Cider (feat. Gid Tanner) | 03:11 Tools | |
22018085 | Play | Run Nigger, Run | 02:46 Tools | |
59639254 | Play | Run N****r Run | 02:46 Tools | |
87803654 | Play | BONEPARTE'S RETREAT | 02:46 Tools | |
59639253 | Play | 05. ride old buck to water | 02:46 Tools | |
77183241 | Play | Possum Hunt on Stump House Mountain part 2 | 02:58 Tools | |
22018100 | Play | Practice Night With Skillet Lickers (Part 1) | 02:58 Tools | |
77183240 | Play | Nancy Rollin' | 02:58 Tools | |
59639255 | Play | 03. soldier's joy | 02:46 Tools | |
59639256 | Play | 09. liberty | 02:46 Tools | |
59639257 | Play | 08. fly around my pretty little miss | 02:46 Tools | |
59639260 | Play | Casey Jones - The Skillet Lickers | 02:55 Tools | |
22018032 | Play | Flop-Earred Mule | 02:55 Tools | |
77183238 | Play | N****r In the Woodpile | 02:58 Tools | |
59639258 | Play | 04. sal's gone to the cider mill | 02:55 Tools | |
77183239 | Play | PASS AROUND THE BOTTLE | 02:58 Tools | |
59639262 | Play | Run, Niger, Run! | 01:23 Tools | |
59639263 | Play | 07. hell broke loose in georgia | 02:58 Tools |
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.