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From The Half Ain't Never Been Told: Early American Rural Religious Music...Classic Recordings From The 1920s and 30s, Vol. 1

Recorded in 1927 (Vocalion 5162)...Uncle Dave Macon, vocal & banjo; Kirk McGee, fiddle & vocal; Mazy Todd, fiddle; Sam McGee, guitar

Prompted by a Vocalion A & R man, in 1927 Uncle Dave Macon formed a string band with Sam McGee guitar, Kirk McGee fiddle, and local fiddler Mazy Todd, who often appeared on the Grand Ole Opry with his own band...Macon named his group Uncle Dave Macon and his The Fruit Jar Drinkers and this was clearly a group that could compete with the popular Skillet Lickers...The problem was there was already a different band playing on the Opry named "The Fruit Jar Drinkers" who were "really Tennessee hill men tall lean gangly and they drank moonshine from fruit jars"... When Macon's 1927 and 1928 recordings with "The Fruit Jar Drinkers" became popular George Hay wrote Vocalion and asked them to stop using the "Fruit Jar Drinkers" but it was too late.

Art drawing: Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit Jar Drinkers from R. Crumb's Heroes Of Blues, Jazz And Country