17 February 2006

Seventy years ago today...

Charlie Monroe and his younger brother Bill went into the recording studio in Charlotte, North Carolina, at 3.30 p.m. on 17 February 1936, and in two and a quarter hours made their first commercial recordings: ten sides for the RCA Victor company's Bluebird label. These were 'My long journey home', 'What is a home without love?', 'What would you give in exchange?', 'Little red shoes', 'Nine pound hammer is too heavy', 'On some foggy mountain top', 'Drifting too far from the shore', 'In my dear old Southern home', 'New River train', and 'This world is not my home'. In the course of two years they recorded a total of sixty sides for Bluebird.

Sources: Wayne Erbsen, Rural roots of bluegrass (2003), p. 28; Douglas B. Green, notes to the Monroe Brothers, Feast here tonight (RCA 2-LP rerelease, 1975); Copper Creek Bluegrass Calendar 2006.

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