Gid Tanner His Skillet Lickers Run Nigger Run 1927 Columbia records

Uploaded for historical purposes When Gid Tanner teamed up with blind guitarist Riley Puckett and signed to Columbia in 1924, they created the label s earliest socalled hillbilly recording. Gid Tanner formed The Skillet Lickers in 1926. The first lineup was Gid Tanner, Riley Puckett, Clayton McMichen and Fate Norris. Between 1926 and 1931 they recorded 88 sides for Columbia. Eightytwo of these were commercially issued. Later members were Lowe Stokes, Bert Layne, Hoke Rice, Arthur Tanner and Hoyt Slim Bryant. Their bestselling single was Down Yonder, a hillbilly breakdown, in 1934 on RCA Victor. They disbanded in 1931, but reformed for occasional recordings after a couple of years with a changing lineup. Back Up and Push was another wellknown recording. The Skillet Lickers, together with fellow North Georgians Fiddlin John Carson and the Georgia Yellow Hammers, made Atlanta and North Georgia an early center of oldtime string band music, esp