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A string band is an old-time music or jazz ensemble made up mainly or solely of string instruments. String bands were popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and are among the forerunners of modern country music and bluegrass .
The Carolina Chocolate Drops were an old-time string band from Durham, North Carolina.Their 2010 album, Genuine Negro Jig, won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, [1] and was number 9 in fRoots magazine's top 10 albums of 2010.
Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. [1] [2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, [3] [4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the ...
The Weems String Band were an old-time country string band who recorded in the 1920s.. The band was made up of the Weems family based in Perry County, Tennessee, including brothers Frank and Dick on fiddle, Jesse on cello and brother-in-law Alvin Conder on banjo and vocals augmented at times with two younger members, Atlas "Dodge" Conder, and Ray Hinson, who is Dick Weems step-son, on guitar ...
Caleb Klauder also performs country music with his Caleb Klauder Country Band, and has released three albums: Dangerous Mes and Poisonous Yous (2007) Western Country (2010) [citation needed], and Innocent Road was released in 2016 and features Reeb Willms on guitar and vocals. Klauder is also a member of Jesse Lége, Joel Savoy & The Cajun ...
6 String Drag; 101 Ranch Boys; A. After the Reign (band) ... Calamity Jane (country music band) Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers; The Carolina Tar Heels; Carter Family;
The Leake County Revelers were a country music string band popular in the U.S. South in the 1920s and 1930s. The members were from in and around Sebastopol, Mississippi, led by fiddler Will Gilmer, with R. O. Mosley on mandolin and banjo-mandolin, Jim Wolverton on five-string banjo, and Dallas Jones on guitar.
In December 1998, the four musicians formed Yonder Mountain String Band which was to open for a band at the Fox Theatre in Boulder. The band developed both a bluegrass and jam band fan base, and can often be found on tour. Their debut album Elevation was released on Frog Pad Records, an independent record label run by the band, in the fall of 1999.