Georgia Yellow Hammers

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The Georgia Yellow Hammers is an old-time string and vocal quartet from Gordon County, Georgia from the 1920's. The group featured Charles Moody, Jr. on guitar; Bub Landress on banjo; Phil Reaves on guitar; and Bill Chitwood on fiddle.1

The group often played with Andrew Baxter and Jim Baxter from Curryville, GA (also in Gordon County). The Baxter's recorded with the Georgia Yellow Hammers from time to time.Andrew Baxter's unique style of fiddle is heard an early recording of a band favorite entitled "G-Rag". The band released one of the top selling records of 1920s southern music with 1927's release "The Picture on the Wall"/"My Carolina Girl".1

Further reading

  • Wayne W. Daniel, Pickin' on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 76-77.
  • The Encyclopedia of Country Music, ed. Paul Kingsbury (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), s.v. "Georgia Yellow Hammers."
  • Gene Wiggins and Tony Russell, "Hell Broke Loose in Gordon County, Georgia," Old Time Music 25 (summer 1977): 9-21.
  • Charles K. Wolfe, "The Georgia Yellow Hammers," in Classic Country: Legends of Country Music (New York: Routledge, 2001).
  • Tony Russell, Old Time Music Journal

References

  1. ^ a b http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2693

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