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Music and Mayhem on Main Street:R.D. Hendon and his Western Jamboree CowboysIntroductionby Andrew BrownIn a series of posts over the next few months, we will examine in-depth, for the first time, the...
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Music and Mayhem on Main Street:R.D. Hendon and his Western Jamboree Cowboys in ContextPart 2: "The Dance"A lot is made of "Texas Dance Hall Music," though this social phenomenon is now largely a thing...
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Music and Mayhem on Main Street
Music and Mayhem on Main Street:R.D. Hendon and his Western Jamboree Cowboys in ContextPart 3: The Freedom SessionThe first record by the Western Jamboree Cowboys comes as a surprise to anyone familiar...
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Music and Mayhem on Main Street (Part 4)
Music and Mayhem on Main Street:R.D. Hendon and his Western Jamboree Cowboys in ContextPart 4: The Road to 105 1/2 MainLittle in Rigsby Durwood Hendon's background suggests a mid-life foray into the...
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Music and Mayhem on Main Street (Part 5)
Music and Mayhem on Main Street:R.D. Hendon and his Western Jamboree Cowboys in ContextPart 5: "A Good, Solid Beat:" The South Texas Cowboys at the SphinxPrior to taking over the Main Street Dance Hall...
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Music and Mayhem on Main Street (Part 6)
Music and Mayhem on Main Street:R.D. Hendon and his Western Jamboree Cowboys in ContextPart 6: "A New Beginning"The Hendon brothers were fast learners. The Sphinx Club had been a good education in how...
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Music and Mayhem on Main Street (Part 7)
Music and Mayhem on Main Street:R.D. Hendon and his Western Jamboree Cowboys in ContextPart 7: "MacArthur and the Wandering Blues"The Western Jamboree Cowboys' first record was still new when they...
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Music and Mayhem on Main Street (Part 8)
Music and Mayhem on Main Street:R.D. Hendon and his Western Jamboree Cowboys in ContextPart 8: "Pure Corn"Today, Eddie Noack is the best-remembered of all the musicians who played with the Western...
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Music and Mayhem on Main Street (Part 9)
Music and Mayhem on Main Street:R.D. Hendon and his Western Jamboree Cowboys in ContextPart 9: "Nervous Breakdown"The Western Jamboree Cowboys that ushered in the new year on December 31, 1951, looked...
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Music and Mayhem on Main Street (Part 10)
Music and Mayhem on Main Street:R.D. Hendon and his Western Jamboree Cowboys in ContextPart 10: "The Glamour is in Your Heart: When Sig Byrd Met R.D. Hendon"On May 3, 1952, Houston Press columnist...
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Music and Mayhem on Main Street (Part 11)
Music and Mayhem on Main Street:R.D. Hendon and his Western Jamboree Cowboys in ContextPart 11: "On Tour"The main attraction of being a member of the Western Jamboree Cowboys was having the crowd come...
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Revisiting Billy Briggs on Time 103
Billy Briggs and his X.I.T. Boys - X.I.T. Song (vocal: Briggs) / Autograph Your Photograph (vocal: Jess Williams) (Time 103)It would an exercise in futility to determine why some records survived in...
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Frankie Miller unissued Starday demo: "The Wagon Yard"
Frankie Miller unissued Starday demo: "The Wagon Yard"Disc three of Bear Family's 2008 compilation of Frankie Miller's post-Columbia recordings (for Starday, United Artists, Cowtown Hoedown, and Stop),...
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Rusty McDonald and the Cocoas on Chesterfield 364
The Cocoas - Flip Your Daddy / Ooooo! Ooooo! (Chesterfield 45-364)For grizzled old excavators of America's vinyl underground, it sometimes feels as if everything has by now been discovered,...
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