Artist: Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1928
Fiddle tune. An instrumental really, but here some vocal lines were added to attract more buyers.
Covers:
John Dilleshaw & A.A. Gray [at the beginning of A Georgia Barbecue At Stone Mountain]
William H. Stepp [Lomax recording in Kentucky for the Library of Congress]
Hank Garland [as instrumental Sugarfoot Rag]
Red Foley [with Hank Garland, vocal version; lyrics: Vaughn Horton; hit C&W]
Freddie Mitchell [idem]
Art Lund [idem]
Porter Wagoner [again with Hank Garland]
Browns [with Chet Atkins]
Jerry Reed [C&W hit]
Coteau [neo cajun; all as Sugarfoot Rag]
Galax Bogtrotters [as Pretty Little Widder]
Hank Garland was one of Nashville's key session guitarists until his (nearly) fatal car accident in '63. You can hear him in Bop-A-Lena (Ronnie Self), Oh Lonesome Me (Don Gibson), Hound Dog, A Fool Such As I, Stuck On You, A Big Hunk O' Love, It's Now Or Never, Are You Lonesome Tonight, Surrender, His Latest Flame, Can't Help Falling In Love, Crying In The Chapel and Little Sister (Elvis Presley).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)