SAM & KIRK McGEE From Sunny Tennessee Bear Family German import LP

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SAM & KIRK McGEE

From Sunny Tennessee

German import Vinyl LP. Bear Family Records 15517. Mono, includes original 6 page booklet. COVER: VG++ some corner wear. VINYL: strong VG++.

SAM & KIRK McGEE (banjo & guitar)

 The McGee brothers grew up in Franklin, Tennessee, where Sam learned to pick guitar from local black musicians.  The use of alternating bass and playing the melody on the treble strings had more in common with black blues than local string band playing, where a guitar kept time with bass runs while backing the fiddle.
Sam and Kirk intertwined with some of the best old time acoustic musicians of the 20th Century, including Dave Macon, the Delmores, and Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, as well as moving into bluegrass with Bill Monroe.  Although well known in Tennessee for their many years of playing (on the old time segment) on the Grand Ole Opry, they never gained the star status of pickers like Chet Atkins.  They kept day jobs (Kirk in realty in Nashville and Sam in farming in Franklin--he died in a farm accident in 1975) They rode the wave of the first radio and recorded music and the dawn of the Grand Ole Opry, moving beyond the older generation of Uncle Dave Macon,  to forming  the hot string band called the Dixieliners with Fiddlin' Arthur Smith.  In spite of being a pioneer to record (in 1928 solo and with Dave Macon), Sam wasn't prolific in recorded output.   I'm guessing two factors influenced the low output. The first was that the tunes he worked out required a lot of practice to get right, and so he had a limited stock of material. The second possibility is that he was busy farming and playing live performance, and the recording business didn't appeal to him.
Besides guitar, Sam played the banjo and the Gibson banjo-guitar.  He and Kirk were often billed as comedy acts, with Sam wearing a red wig to become a Toby character developed in minstrel shows.  A lot of his songs show his comedic side (with lines like, "Met a little gypsy in a fortune telling place--she read my mind, and then she slapped my face..."), but were accompanied with masterful runs and bends on the guitar.  Charles K. Wolfe's excellent book on the early Opry, A Good Natured Riot, tells how Uncle Dave taught showmanship to the McGee brothers, particularly playing up the hillbilly aspects for comedy.

16 TRACKS INCLUDE:

C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken / Salty Dog Blues / The Tramp / The Kicking Mule / Charming Bill / Easy Rider / Chevrolet Car / and more.

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