Notes & Queries – August 2021

Notes “In response to Mary Gibson’s question about the Webster Brothers in the May issue of Bluegrass Unlimited, I was just listening to them the other day on an album called Classic Country Duets (Old Timey 126). It’s a nice album with 17 songs that had long been unavailable and includes ‘Road of Broken Hearts’ and ‘Seven Year Blues’ by the Webster Brothers. Other acts on the album include the Dixon Brothers, Blue Sky Boys, Delmore Brothers, Girls of the Golden West, Dezurik Sisters, Bailes Brothers, Buchanan Brothers, Armstrong Twins, and Johnny & Jack. For someone wishing to sample a variety of the close harmony singing of the 1930s through early 1950s, I recommend this album. It’s also still available as a CD or vinyl LP.”  Joe Ross, Roseburg, Oregon Queries Q: “Back in the late 1940s or early ‘50s, there was a historic show in Corbin, Kentucky, with Bill and Charlie Monroe and their bands. Each did a show and then they came out together.