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Hillbilly Motorhead

Cornpone — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:34:47 GMT

Just a little tribute to our favorite band......

Gettin Our Kicks

Cornpone — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:08:06 GMT

Don't know how we finagled our way into a studio.....we're so broke we can't afford to pay attention. A take on an ol' classic. M-46 runs left to right through the mitten, hillbilly central. Check it out. We're sittin' proud as peacocks with two tails.

When Carnival Workers Turn Outlaw

Cornpone — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:57:56 GMT

You ain't gonna want this old boy standin' at your door...who is he?

Hell, that's Bob Wayne. He mostly just twiddles 'round with Hank III's guitar, but don't let him fool ya, he makes music all his own. We saw him open for IIIrd and he had the spirit of a real outlaw, wild west type, ya know?. If we didn't put the big pot in the little pot and boil the dishrag! Kind of made me think just because I have a crack in my butt it doesn't make me crippled...if Bob and the carnies can get it done, why can't we? Anyhow, this boy is usually running like a man with a paper ass going through a forest fire. Check his myspace page He'll be comin to your town. Just keep your hands and arms inside _The Mixer!_

Bob Wills Ya Knuckleheads

Cornpone — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:30:30 GMT

Man them boys do know how to adjudicate a situation....

Ol'Hank Loved them 'toons!

Cornpone — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:32:57 GMT

I guess Hank was an Ethanol supporter long before Willie ever jumped on the bandwagon. _BioHank!_

Attn: Michiganders

Cornpone — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:09:30 GMT

This is a very cool venue for acoustic music http://whitecrowconservatory.blogspot.com/

cornpone

Cornpone — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:41:43 GMT

gig

Hillbilly Swing?

You betcha!

Cornpone — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:48:54 GMT

How some old con man started country music

Cornpone — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:54:34 GMT

Ralph Peer born the son of a furniture salesman in 1892, wild horses couldn't drag him off them phonographs in his father's store. This eventually redd him up a job with General Phonograph. Record sales went hell western crooked with radio on the rise and them old boys at Victor lured Ralph away to record some hillybilly music. He struck him up a deal to get some hillbilly royalties which put them boys at Victor in a fix because he was makin over a million a year in 1926!

Bristol Sessions Ol' Peer found some hat factory and turned it into a studio for those hillbillies. Those people were dancin around like a fart in a mitten to get Peer to record their mountain music. Fiddles, banjos, mandos and harps littered the lot. Couple of them just happened to be the Carter Family and the Victor's best selling artist, the Singin' Brakeman-Jimmie Rodgers. Peer recorded only six of the Carter's songs, gave 'em $300 and sent them on their way. Those records took off & Peer being crooked as a barrel of snakes had those Carters back to record classics like Wildwood Flower payin 'em $50 a song. That old boy made millions on them! Jimmie Rodger's T for Texas sold half a million right from the git. Peer was busy as a one eyed man in a burlesque house. He even got some of Louie Armstrong's money, got 'em to record with Jimmie too! Yup ole' Peer- He'd take the pennies off a dead man's eyes. If steamboats were selling for a dime a dozen, The Carters, Jimmie Rodgers and even Louie Armstrong couldn't buy the echo of the whistle. You got to hand it to 'em though......They don't call Bristol, Tennessee the birthplace of country music for nuthin!

The Singing Brakeman

Cornpone — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:06:54 GMT

Thank the good Lord for not lettin' the creek rise on this old thing.

T For Texas

cornpone on parade

Cornpone — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:20:49 GMT

What happens when you give some hillbillys a car battery, a PA, a pick-up and a parade. Well wha'd you expect?

Dang Right!

Hillbilly Music

Cornpone — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:01:23 GMT

Finally got a few tunes from our first show. Few of 'em went all hell western crooked, but we had a good time. Check 'em out....the rest of the show is on the page. Saginaw, Jr. Juke Joint Jumpin

Cornpone is now a power trio.

Cornpone — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:47:28 GMT

The old-time gospelbilly duo has added legendary steel man Zydeco Ziggy. Welcome Zig! New tunes gonna be posted soon.

This dang blasted co'puter

Cornpone — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:51:43 GMT

Tried to post links to sum songs.... Did it work? SongySong

Some Mighty Fine Hillbilly Gospel

Cornpone — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:00:46 GMT

Probably ten of the finest songs about our Lord in the last 80 years. Whoever said the devil has the best music ain't heard this!

10. Can The Circle Be Unbroken-The Carter Family

9. The Troublemaker-Willie Nelson

8. He Reached Down-Iris Dement

7. Jesus Christ Is Still The King-Billy Joe Shaver

6. The Christian Life-The Louvin Brothers

5. By The Mark-Gillian Welch

4. Only Jesus-Scott H. Biram

3. He Turned The Water Into Wine-Johnny Cash

2. Why Me-Kris Kristofferson

1. I Saw The Light-Hank Williams

There it is.......no contest..........

Story of Cornpone

Cornpone — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:30:01 GMT

The real story of Cornpone.......

Big Texas Nate was born on an Indian reservation in western Kentucky. There was an old Shaman there who played the blues and when BTN got his first guitar, he would do odd jobs to pay for his lessons. That explains the country blues influence in his playing. The same shaman would also sit around drinking and singing along with Jimmie Rodgers records. When you hear him let out that old yodel, it is harkening back to a time when he was 6 years old. His folks eventually moved him up to a Hemlock, Michigan dairy farm to work and pick that ol’ guitar.

Lowdown's story is quite different but the two come together in an amazing way. He was born in a share cropper’s shack in Arkansas. His folks raised him to pick cotton, bail hay and on the weekend, play an old wash-tub bass his great grandpa had made. The family headed north chasing that automotive dream of big-time factory wages, only to be left unemployed and in soup lines for the greater part of the decade. Once Lowdown’s father finally did manage to get his way into a Saginaw machine shop, he was discharged for stealing car parts to fulfill his dream of owning a brand new Cadillac, which he was planning to build himself.

Cornpone was conceived when the two northern hillbillys met at a Wayne ‘The Train’ Hancock show. They were both in the front row the entire night and ran into each other right in front of Wayne’s Swing Shift van on the way home. Neither could believe the others story and especially the fact that they lived so close to each other. They began getting together every night after work writing and singing songs.

The boys might be playin’ church service or your local bar, but their old-time hillbilly gospel is genuine, sawdust covered & from the heart.