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Arnold Rypens
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Artist: Uncle Dave Macon
Author: Christian
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1926
First star of the Grand Ole' Opry. His family operated the Macon Hotel in Nashville, where all these vaudeville entertainers stayed while in town. That's where this latecomer learned his banjo trade. Re-issued on Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music.
Covers:
Holy Modal Rounders [credited to Uncle Dave Macon]
Chieftains [as Down The Old Plank Road on cd Down The Old Plank Road, recorded in Nashville; with Bela Fleck and John Hiatt]
David Thomas [on The Harry Smith Project Revisited]
Robin Williams [as Old Plank Road in Robert Altman film A Prairie Home Companion]
Jordan's A Hard Road To Travel from The Chieftains' follow-up cd Further Down The Old Plank Road was also recorded by Uncle Dave Macon (see there).
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)