Ranch Radio will stick with old time country music for the rest of the week. Today's offering is Shout Lula recorded in 1927 by Grayson & Whitter.G.B. Grayson, fiddler/singer was from North Carolina and Henry Whitter, guitarist/singer was from Virginia. They were only together for 3 years but recorded 40 songs. Their Handsome Molly sold 50,000 copies and became a standard. Other songs of theirs which becames standards were Tom Dooley, Cluck Old Hen and Lee Highway Blues. Grayson was killed in 1930 in a car accident while hitchhiking.
Today's tune is available on their 22 track CD Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 1: 1927-1928.
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