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Bear Family Records - BCD 15214 - Uncle Dave Macon - At Home




Uncle Dave Macon, beginning his professional musical career after the age of 50, brought musical and performance traditions of the 19th-century South to the radio shows and the recording catalogues of the early country music industry. In 1925, he became one of two charter members of the Grand Ole Opry, then called the WSM Barn Dance. A consummate showman on the banjo and a one-man repository of countless old songs and comic routines, Macon remained a well-loved icon of country music until and beyond his death in 1952. 

 Born David Harrison Macon in Smartt Station in middle Tennessee's Warren County, he was the son of a Confederate officer who owned a large farm. Macon heard the folk music of the area when he was young, but he was also a product of the urban South: after the family moved to Nashville and began operating a hotel, Macon hobnobbed with traveling vaudeville musicians who performed there. After his father was stabbed near the hotel, Macon left Nashville with the rest of his family. He worked on a farm and later operated a wagon freight line, performing music only at local parties and dances. 

Macon's turn toward a musical second career was due partly to the advent of motorized trucks, for his wagon line fell on hard times in the early '20s after a competitor invested in the horseless novelties. In 1923, he struck up a few tunes in a Nashville barbershop with fiddler Sid Harkreader, and an agent from the Loew's theater chain happened to stop in. Soon Macon and Harkreader were touring as far a field as New England, and when George D. Hay began bringing together performers two years later for what would become the Opry, Macon was a natural choice. The tour also brought Macon the first of his many recording dates, held in New York for the Vocalion label in 1924. Macon would record prolifically through the 1930s (and occasionally up to 1950) for various labels, accompanied at different times by Harkreader, the brother duo of Sam & Kirk McGee, the Delmore Brothers, the young Roy Acuff, and other string players including a then-unknown Bill Monroe. For secular material, his backing band took the name of the Fruit Jar Drinkers.




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                       Tracklisting
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   1. (00:03:05) Uncle Dave Macon - Cumberland Mountain Deer Race
   2. (00:01:44) Uncle Dave Macon - Rabbit In The Pea Patch
   3. (00:02:22) Uncle Dave Macon - Bully Of The Town
   4. (00:02:30) Uncle Dave Macon - Mountain Dew
   5. (00:02:40) Uncle Dave Macon - Old Maid's Love Song
   6. (00:00:20) Uncle Dave Macon - Rock Of Ages
   7. (00:01:49) Uncle Dave Macon - Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy
   8. (00:01:28) Uncle Dave Macon - Death Of John Henry
   9. (00:01:22) Uncle Dave Macon - That's Where My Money Goes
  10. (00:02:27) Uncle Dave Macon - Long John Green
  11. (00:01:46) Uncle Dave Macon - Lady In The Car
  12. (00:01:51) Uncle Dave Macon - Cotton-Eyed Joe
  13. (00:02:31) Uncle Dave Macon - Something's Always Sure To Tickle Me
  14. (00:01:34) Uncle Dave Macon - Chewing Gum
  15. (00:01:08) Uncle Dave Macon - All In Down And Out Blues
  16. (00:01:29) Uncle Dave Macon - Hungry Hash House
  17. (00:01:36) Uncle Dave Macon - Whoa Mule
  18. (00:02:06) Uncle Dave Macon - No One To Welcome Me Home
  19. (00:00:47) Uncle Dave Macon - Banjo Solo
  20. (00:01:17) Uncle Dave Macon - Jenny Put The Kettle On
  21. (00:01:53) Uncle Dave Macon - Kissin' On The Sly

Playing Time.........: 00:37:45
Total Size...........: 86,42 MB




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