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1-CD Digipak, four panel, with booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time 70:51 minutes. Historic Country... more

ALLERTON & ALTON: Black, White And Bluegrass (CD)

1-CD Digipak, four panel, with booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time 70:51 minutes.

Historic Country Music Discovery! Recordings of an Interracial Duo located after 60 Years.

Sometimes people who make music history have no idea they're doing so at the time. Bear Family Records has uncovered just such a case and will proudly be releasing this rare and previously undocumented piece of country music history in November 2010.

You can count on one hand the number of African American country music performers who recorded prior to the mid-1950s. Early Grand Ole Opry star Deford Bailey comes to mind because of his unique status as an instrumentalist. Indeed, the Country Music Foundation treats him as the historical oddity that he was. Jimmie Rodgers used Louis Armstrong's cornet on a 1930 session, but it's a cinch the two men never sang together. Black and white country duets are as rare as hen's teeth during this period. In fact, they may be altogether unknown.

Now Bear Family Records has found one. In several months we will proudly release the historical recordings of Allerton & Alton, The Cumberland Ridge Runners. They are perhaps the first interracial country music duet. Their performances dating from the late 1940s/early 1950s were broadcast over radio station WLAM in Lewiston, Maine and heard throughout the Northeast and parts of southern Ontario, Canada. The story of how these two country music fans met while browsing old 78s is as fascinating as their recordings. Perhaps the most amazing part of their story is the utterly unself-conscious way with which they approached the racial aspect of who they were and what they were doing. Equally compelling is the story of how the Korean War put an abrupt end to this interracial duo, after Alton returned a changed man, having experienced the cruel realities of a segregated U.S. Army.

This release will present their music in typical Bear Family style: lavishly illustrated with vintage photos, full historical notes and as many digitally restored recordings as we can fit on a CD.

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Allerton & Alton - Black, White And Bluegrass (CD) CD 1
01 Keep On The Sunny Side (Theme Song) ALLERTON & ALTON
02 Orange Blossom Special ALLERTON & ALTON
03 Kentucky ALLERTON & ALTON
04 I'll Get Along Somehow ALLERTON & ALTON
05 Twelfth Street Rag ALLERTON & ALTON
06 Keep On The Sunny Side (Theme Song) ALLERTON & ALTON
07 Memory Lane ALLERTON & ALTON
08 Don't This Road Look Rough And Rocky ALLERTON & ALTON
09 Drifting Too Far From The Shore ALLERTON & ALTON
10 Keep On The Sunny Side (Theme Song) ALLERTON & ALTON
11 Three Ways Of Knowing ALLERTON & ALTON
12 I'll Sign My Heart Away ALLERTON & ALTON
13 Every Day Is Mother's Day To Me ALLERTON & ALTON
14 Standing Somewhere In The Shadows (radio show ALLERTON & ALTON
15 Somehow Tonight (off-the-air) ALLERTON & ALTON
16 Branded Wherever I Go (WW2A 1947) ALLERTON & ALTON
17 Raining On The Mountain (WW2A 1947) ALLERTON & ALTON
18 Kentucky (studio practice) ALLERTON & ALTON
19 That Pretty Little Face (take 1) (studio prac ALLERTON & ALTON
20 That Pretty Little Face (take 2) (studio prac ALLERTON & ALTON
21 What Would The Profit Be (studio practice) ALLERTON & ALTON
22 Let Me Be Your Salty Dog (studio practice) ALLERTON & ALTON
23 Branded Wherever I Go (promotion disc) ALLERTON & ALTON
24 Can't Feel At Home In This World Anymore (194 ALLERTON & ALTON
25 Cabin In Caroline (WW2A 1948) ALLERTON & ALTON
26 Rambler's Call (WW2A 1948) ALLERTON & ALTON
27 Keep On The Sunny Side (short version) ALLERTON & ALTON
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"ALLERTON & ALTON"

Es ist oft wahr, dass Menschen, die Geschichte schreiben, nicht wissen, dass sie es zu diesem Zeitpunkt tun. Betrachten Sie Allerton & Alton. Nur sehr wenige kennen ihre Namen, da das 21. Jahrhundert mit kaum einem Blick zurück in die eigene Populärkultur eintaucht1. Allerton & Alton sangen Country-Musik in einer Zeit, in der die Country-Musik noch nicht von den meisten ihrer Wurzeln befreit war. Es gab keine glatten Nashville-Produktionen und das Wort "countrypolitan" war noch nicht gesprochen worden. Countrymusik war noch immer ein Nischenmarkt und stolz darauf. Man konnte die Anzahl der Cross-Over-Hits auf ein oder zwei Händen zählen, obwohl eine Anzeige von Columbia Records für Gid Tanner und Riley Puckett Ende der 1920er Jahre frühe Hoffnungen auf einen breiteren Markt zeigte und behauptete: "Der Fiddle- und Gitarrenwahn geht nach Norden".

 

Allerton & Alton sangen das, was man heute wohl'Bergmusik' nennen würde. Andere nennen es vielleicht die "Wurzeln des Bluegrass". Ihr Auftrittsstil war fest in der Tradition der "Brother Acts" verwurzelt, einem sehr erfolgreichen Duett-Stil, der sich in den späten 1920er Jahren etablierte und bis in die 1960er Jahre andauerte: Earl & Bill Bolick, bekannt als die Blue Sky Boys; Bill & Charlie Monroe; J. E. & Wade Mainer; die Bailes Brothers; die Dixon Brothers und die Shelton Brothers. Die frühe Tradition setzte sich fort mit den Delmore Brothers; den Osborne Brothers; Jim & Jesse; Johnnie & Jack (die eigentlich Schwager waren); den Louvin Brothers und den Wilburn Brothers, deren TV-Show (1963-1974) das Genre einem noch größeren Publikum näher brachte. Die Liste ist lang und der Stil überschneidet sich mit dem Erfolg der Everly Brothers aus den 50er Jahren, deren ländliche Wurzeln unverkennbar sind.

 

Dass Allerton & Alton Teil der Duett-Harmonie-Tradition waren, könnte nicht zu einem Aufblitzen auf dem Radar führen, wenn es nicht für eine Sache wäre. Nun, zwei Dinge, wenn man die Tatsache berücksichtigt, dass sie aus Maine stammen, die noch nie eine Brutstätte für Country-Musik war. Aber abgesehen von der Geographie war das Einzigartige an Allerton & Alton die einfache Tatsache, dass Alton Myers ein Afroamerikaner war. Schon die Tatsache, dass er Lieder aus der reichen Tradition der weißen Bergmusik sang, war etwas seltsam. Aber die Tatsache, dass er diese Lieder im Duett mit einem weißen Mann sang, macht die Geschichte, gelinde gesagt, einzigartig. Ihre Aufnahmen aus den späten 1940er und frühen 1950er Jahren sind singuläre Ereignisse in der Country-Musikgeschichte. Diese Auftritte wurden über den Äther gehört, aber die Aufnahmen wurden bisher noch nie kommerziell veröffentlicht. Tatsächlich waren sie verloren geglaubt, zu einer Fußnote in der Geschichte der Countrymusik degradiert, über die wenig greifbare Beweise blieben.

 

Zum Glück für uns sind diese Aufnahmen gefunden worden. Ebenso glücklich ist die Tatsache, dass Al Hawkes (Allerton des Duos) hier ist, um ihre Geschichte zu erzählen und seine Erinnerungen an diese ungewöhnlichste Episode der Country-Musikgeschichte zu teilen.

Lesen Sie mehr unter: https://www.bear-family.com/allerton-und-alton-black-white-and-bluegrass.html

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Tracklist
Allerton & Alton - Black, White And Bluegrass (CD) CD 1
01 Keep On The Sunny Side (Theme Song)
02 Orange Blossom Special
03 Kentucky
04 I'll Get Along Somehow
05 Twelfth Street Rag
06 Keep On The Sunny Side (Theme Song)
07 Memory Lane
08 Don't This Road Look Rough And Rocky
09 Drifting Too Far From The Shore
10 Keep On The Sunny Side (Theme Song)
11 Three Ways Of Knowing
12 I'll Sign My Heart Away
13 Every Day Is Mother's Day To Me
14 Standing Somewhere In The Shadows (radio show
15 Somehow Tonight (off-the-air)
16 Branded Wherever I Go (WW2A 1947)
17 Raining On The Mountain (WW2A 1947)
18 Kentucky (studio practice)
19 That Pretty Little Face (take 1) (studio prac
20 That Pretty Little Face (take 2) (studio prac
21 What Would The Profit Be (studio practice)
22 Let Me Be Your Salty Dog (studio practice)
23 Branded Wherever I Go (promotion disc)
24 Can't Feel At Home In This World Anymore (194
25 Cabin In Caroline (WW2A 1948)
26 Rambler's Call (WW2A 1948)
27 Keep On The Sunny Side (short version)