Word: hillbillyism
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By combining two accordions, a banjo, bass fiddle and piano with two solovoxes, he made music that sounded good to a lot of people who would not have listened twice to old-style polka bands with their hard-blowing brass and woodwinds and their um-pa-pa .beat. Frankie also...
To Anderson, who now plays in a Western band in Beaumont, Texas, the result added up to a song; he gave it a hillbilly beat and tried it on his steel guitar. After the war, he tried to sell the song, but everyone around Beaumont thought the whole idea was...
The network also announced that its annual, round-the-clock, reading period musical "orgies" featuring hillbilly, popular, and classical selections would begin tomorrow at 8 p.m.
Hillbilly music will be broadcast over WHRB for 12 hours beginning at 8 p.m. tonight from Studio B, in Dudley Hall. The program is open to the public with a half hour show for the studio audience at 7:30 p.m.
Last week in Nacogdoches, Texas (pop. 11,700) more than 4,000 delegates to the interdenominational Tri-State (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas) Singing Convention were still challenging the devil's priority. In spite of heavy rains, sticky red clay roads and a football game across the way, they crowded into...