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Blue Sky Boys:
Blue Sky Boys |
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“Possibly the prettiest country music ever performed” and “quite likely the finest harmonising duo ever recorded”. That's what two commentators thought of Bill and Earl Bolick – the Blue Sky Boys.
Country music’s initial heyday was in the 1920s and the early 1930s. As with all forms of recorded music it received a hefty jolt from the Wall Street Crash of November 1929 and the resulting Depression. The few country artists who recorded through the lowest years of the slump were of the calibre of Jimmie Rodgers, the Carters and Gene Autry. Even the great Bob Wills was allowed only a single session that produced just two sides.
The vanguard of otm recording artists had, in the main, been solo singers and string bands. From 1934 the catalogues would widen. Newer sounds were emerging: Western Swing was about to take off in a big way and ‘brother acts’, became popular - two genuine brother acts really caught the public’s ear - the Delmores and the Callahans. The Delmores recorded as early as 1931, the Callahans three years later. While the Delmores initially had no luck on record this changed when they signed to RCA Victor. The Callahan Brothers recorded prolifically for a number of labels.
But perhaps the public’s affection for this type of act was consolidated in 1936, when the Monroe Brothers, Charlie and Bill cut their first discs (see JSP 7712 for their complete 1936-1938 commercial recordings).
The Monroe Brothers cut their first sides in February 1936 and just four months later the Bolicks entered the same studios and made the first of a long series of discs for Victor’s budget Bluebird label. |
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Track Listing
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Disc 1
I’m Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail
Sunny Side Of Life
There’ll Come A Time
Where The Soul Never Dies
Midnight On The Stormy Sea
Take Up Thy Cross
Row Us Over The Tide
Down On The Banks Of The Ohio
I’m Troubled, I’m Troubled
The Dying Boy’s Prayer
No One To Welcome Me Home
Didn’t They Crucify My Lord
Only Let Me Walk With Thee
Can’t You Hear That Night Bird Crying
An Old Account Was Settled
Sweet Allalee
You Give Me Your Love
I Believe It
When The Ransomed Get Home
Fair Eyed Ellen
Somebody Makes Me Think Of You
Sweet Evalina
No Home
What Have You Done
Disc 2
Sing A Song For The Blind
Within The Circle
They’re All Home But One
Hymns My Mother Sang
Have No Desire To Roam
No Disappointment In Heaven
Story Of The Knoxville Girl
On The Old Plantation
In My Little Home In Tennessee
Beautiful, Beautiful Brown Eyes
The Prisoner’s Dream
The Answer To The Prisoner’s Dream
When The Stars Begin To Fall
We Buried Her
Heaven Holds All For Me
Little Bessie
I Need The Prayers
Old Fashioned Meeting
Katie Dear
Who Wouldn’t Be Lonely
Life Line
When The Valley Moon Was Low
My Last Letter
Mother Went Her Holiness Way
Disc 3
Hang Out The Front Door Key
This Is Like Heaven To Me
I’ve Found A Friend
Asleep In The Briny Deep
Last Night While Standing By My Window
There Was A Time
Bring Back My Wandering Boy
When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
Are You From Dixie
Give Me My Roses Now
The House Where We Were Wed
There’s No Other Love For Me
God Sent My Little Girl
Someone’s Last Day
She’ll Be There
The Lightning Express
The Royal Telephone
The Convict And The Rose
Father, Dear Father, Come Home
We Parted By The Riverside
Only One Step More
The East Bound Train
The Last Mile Of The Way
She’s Somebody’s Darling Once More
Disc 4
I’m S-A-V-E-D
Whispering Hope
The Butcher’s Boy
This Evening Light
Mary Of The Wild Moor
Why Not Confess
Turn Your Radio On
Since The Angels Took My Mother Far Away
In The Hills Of Roane County
Kneel At The Cross
Brown Eyes
Short Life Of Trouble
A Picture On The Wall
Pictures From Life’s Other Side
Don’t Say Goodbye If You Love Me
Speak To Me Little Darling
Have You Seen My Daddy Here?
I Love Her More Now Mother’s Old
Dust On The Bible
Kentucky
I’m Glad (I’m Glad He’s Gone And Left You)
The Chapel In The Hills
Sold Down The River
I’m Going To Write To Heaven (For I Know My Daddy’s There) |
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JSP |
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7782 |
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