Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 7 Aug 2005 7:18 pm |
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This band had several different names and a bunch of different steel players in the early to mid 50s--including Curly Chalker, Pee Wee Whitewing, Jimmy Biggar, Bobby Black, and Bobby Garrett.
That particular recording is from the latter half of 1953, and is almost certainly Bobby Black, at about 19 years of age. The band's releases on the Coral label from 1951-1952 are equally as good, and have Whitewing on steel, just before he joined Hank Thompson's band. Black replaced Whitewing.
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