RARE VINTAGE 78 RECORD AL HOPKINS & HIS BUCKLE BUSTERS BRUNSWICK LABEL 177
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You are bidding on a RARE 78 rpm record by AL HOPKINS AND HIS BUCKLE BUSTERS "THE NINE POUND HAMMER & C.C.&O. NO. 558" on the BRUNSWICK Label #177
Albert Green Hopkins (1889-Oct 21, 1932) (AL HOPKINS) was an American musician, a pioneer of what later came to be called country music; in 1925 he originated the earlier designation of this music as "hillbilly music", though not without qualms about its pejorative connotation.
Hopkins played piano, an unusual instrument for Appalachian music. The members of the band that brought him to fame (which was known by several names: THE HILL BILLIES, AL HOPKINS' ORIGINAL HILL BILLIES and AL HOPKINS AND HIS BUCKLE BUSTERS) came variously from Hopkins own Watauga County, North Carolina and from Grayson and Carroll Counties in Virginia. Although the group formed up in 1924 in Galax, Virginia, they were based in Washington, D.C. and performed regularly on WRC. In 1927 they became the first country musicians to perform in New York City. They were also the first to play for a president of the United States (Calvin Coolidge, at a Press Correspondents' gathering) and the first to appear in a movie (a 15 minute Warner Bros./Vitaphone short released along with Al Jolson's The Singing Fool).
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