1927 1ST RELEASE RUN "N" WORD RUN GID TANNER AND HIS SKILLET LICKERS HILLBILLY
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Description
Very Rare. COLUMBIA 15158-D 1927 Gid Tanner and His Skillet -Lickers with Riley Puckett and Clayton McMichen "Run "N" Word Run" "Dixie".
Investment Grade Excellent.
James Gideon Tanner (June 6, 1885 – May 13, 1960) was an American old time fiddler and one of the earliest stars of what would come to be known as country music. His band, the Skillet Lickers, was one of the most innovative and influential string bands of the 1920s and 1930s. Its most notable members were Clayton McMichen (fiddle and vocal) and the blind Riley Puckett (guitar and vocal).
The lyrics of the Skillet Lickers' music used language then common among rural white Americans, but which today is considered offensive, including song titles like "N" Word in the Woodpile" and "Run "N" Word Run".
Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers were inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1988. Following his death in 1960, Tanner's grandson and great-grandson continued performing as the Skillet Lickers. Phil Tanner, Gid's grandson, hosts an open jam session on Friday nights in a refurbished chicken house on his father's old farm in Dacula, Georgia.
Songwriter Bob Dylan wrote and performed a version of Gid Tanner's "Down on Tanner's Farm", retitled and reset as "New York Town". It can be heard in Martin Scorsese's 2005 documentary on Dylan, No Direction Home.
15158D GID TANNER'S SKILLET LICKERS DIXIE W143795 - - 3/29/27 - 15158D GID TANNER'S SKILLET LICKERS RUN "N" Word RUN W143796 - - 3/29/27
