Allen Brothers Allen Brothers With Other Country Brother Acts CD

Country music has always featured brother acts. The most prolific included the Delmore Brothers, the Blue Sky Boys and the Monroe Brothers. This collection focuses mainly on Austin and Lee Allen. The first three CD's are devoted to them and the fourth deals with their fraternal contemporaries. By the early 1920's, already professional musicians, they settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chattanooga would feature in a number of their titles to the extent they were dubbed the Chattanooga Boys. In Chattanooga the Allen's got on radio once or twice a week - a bonus because radio was then the most effective form of publicity. The result was lucrative bookings as far afield as Georgia. They also performed for medicine shows - the musicians gathered a receptive audience for the show owner to exploit. The Allen's seem to have entered the recording studio fairly seamlessly and they had decent record sales. They recorded regularly - most years twice or more. Their sales were sufficient for them to continue to record well into the 1930's - many musicians were discarded because of the depression. Possibly their best-selling title was the slightly risqu? a New Salty Dog. Other good sellers were Jake Walk Blues and Reckless Night Blues. Inevitably new brother acts like the Shelton's, the Anglin's and the Crowder's overtook the Allen's, and a few of those are also included.

1. Allen Brothers: Frisco Blues 2. Allen Brothers: Tiple Blues 3. Allen Brothers: Prisoner's Dream 4. Allen Brothers: I'll Be All Smiles Tonight 5. Allen Brothers: Free a Little Bird 6. Allen Brothers: Skipping and Flying 7. Allen Brothers: I've Got the Chain Store Blues 8. Allen Brothers: The Enforcement Blues 9. Allen Brothers: Jake Walk Blues 10. Allen Brothers: Reckless Night Blues 11. Allen Brothers: New Chattanooga Blues 12. Allen Brothers: Shanghai Rooster Blues 13. Allen Brothers: Price of Cotton Blues 14. Allen Brothers: I'm Always Whistling the Blues 15. Allen Brothers: Roll Down the Line 16. Allen Brothers: Old Black Crow in the Hickory Nut Tree 17. Allen Brothers: Baby When You Coming Back Home 18. Allen Brothers: Long Gone from Bowling Green 19. Allen Brothers: Red Pajama Sal 20. Allen Brothers: New Deal Blues 21. Allen Brothers: Mercy Mercy Blues 22. Allen Brothers: Padlock Key Blues 23. Allen Brothers: Daddy Park Your Car 24. Allen Brothers: Misbehavin Mama 25. Allen Brothers: Midnight Mama 26. Allen Brothers: Salty Dog Blues 27. Allen Brothers: Bow Wow Blues 28. Allen Brothers: Chattanooga Blues 29. Allen Brothers: Laughin and Cryin Blues 30. Allen Brothers: Ain't That Skippin and Flyin 31. Allen Brothers: Cheat Em 32. Allen Brothers: No Low Down Hanging Around 33. Allen Brothers: Maybe Next Week Sometime 34. Allen Brothers: A New Salty Dog 35. Allen Brothers: Preacher Blues 36. Allen Brothers: When You Leave, You'll Leave Me Sad 37. Allen Brothers: Chattanooga Mama 38. Allen Brothers: It S Too Bad for You 39. Allen Brothers: Slide Daddy Slide 40. Allen Brothers: Pile Drivin Papa 41. Allen Brothers: Shake It Ida Shake It 42. Allen Brothers: Roll It Down 43. Allen Brothers: Mother-In-Law Blues 44. Allen Brothers: Unlucky Man 45. Allen Brothers: Laughin and Cryin 46. Allen Brothers: Monkey Blues 47. Allen Brothers: Chattanooga Mama 48. Allen Brothers: Drunk and Nutty Blues 49. Allen Brothers: Salty Dog Hey Hey Hey 50. Allen Brothers: Hey Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line 51. Allen Brothers: Allen Brothers Rag 52. Allen Brothers: Skippin and Flyin 53. Allen Brothers: When a Mans Got a Woman 54. Allen Brothers: Rough Neck Blues 55. Allen Brothers: Slipping Clutch Blues 56. Allen Brothers: Please Pay in Advance 57. Allen Brothers: Allen's Lying Blues 58. Allen Brothers: Midnight Mama 59. Allen Brothers: Glorious Night Blues 60. Allen Brothers: Inspiration 61. Allen Brothers: Crossfiring Blues 62. Allen Brothers: I LL Be Here a Long Long Time 63. Allen Brothers: It Can't Be Done 64. Allen Brothers: Windowshade Blues 65. Allen Brothers: Maybe Next Week Sometime - No. 2 66. Allen Brothers: Fruit Jar Blues 67. Allen Brothers: Lightning Bug Blues 68. Allen Brothers: Warm Knees Blues 69. Allen Brothers: Red Hot Rambling Dan 70. Allen Brothers: The Prisoner S Dream 71. Kessinger Brothers: Kanawha County Rag - Kessinger Brothers 72. Kessinger Brothers: West Virginia Special - Kessinger Brothers 73. Morris Brothers: Let Me Be Your Salty Dog - the Morris Brothers 74. Morris Brothers: Darling Think What You Have Done - the Morris Brothers 75. Shelton Brothers: Deep Elem Blues - the Shelton Brothers 76. Shelton Brothers: Four or Five Times - the Shelton Brothers 77. Oscar ; Doc Harper: Bitter Creek - Oscar ; Doc Harper 78. Oscar ; Doc Harper: Twinkle Little Star - Oscar ; Doc Harper 79. Woodie Brothers: Likes Likker Better Than Me - Woodie Brothers 80. Woodie Brothers: Chased Old Satan Through the Door - Woodie Brothers 81. Lewis Brothers: Bull at the Wagon - Lewis Brothers 82. Lewis Brothers: Sally Johnson - Lewis Brothers 83. McGee Brothers: C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken - McGhee Brothers 84. McGee Brothers: Salty Dog Blues - McGhee Brothers 85. Stripling Brothers: Dance All Night with a Bottle in My Hand - Stripling Brothers 86. Stripling Brothers: Horse Shoe Bend - Stripling Brothers 87. Anglin Brothers: Southern Whoopee Song - the Anglin Brothers 88. Anglin Brothers: Just Inside the Pearly Gates - the Anglin Brothers 89. Crowder Brothers: Depot Blues - the Crowder Brothers 90. Crowder Brothers: I Don't Let the Girls Worry My Mind - the Crowder Brothers 91. Ray Brothers: Jake Leg Wobble - Ray Brothers 92. Ray Brothers: Friday Night Waltz - Ray Brothers 93. Hatton Brothers: Hook and Line - Hatton Brothers 94. Hatton Brothers: Wish I Had My Time Again - Hatton Brothers