York Bros. - Fortune Records # 120 - 1949.
Side A - Hamtrack Mama.
Side B - Highland Park Girl.
I have been after this record for a few years now and finally got one for a great price.
These are two great tunes, in the old days you would have called this a double A side and it is, a proper great record.
Hamtramck Mama is pure Hillbilly bop and you get all the great harmony vocals you would expect from George & Leslie York, plus the fantastic acoustic pickin' guitar that hits you right where it should, genius on all levels.
Then you flip the monster over and you get the tale of infidelity with a strange girl from Highland Park who eventually lets in her husband to give him a good hiding.
Two fantastic songs, way before their time of 1949, it sounds more like 51/52 to my ears. Perfect!
Johnnie White and his Rhythm Rangers (featuring Skeets McDonald on vocals)
Fortune Records # 145 - 1950
Side A - Mean and Evil Blues
Side B - The Tattooed Lady
Skeets McDonald and Johnnie White and his band really hit the ground running with this superb Western Swing/Hillbilly two sider. A masterpiece in writing and musicianship. For 1950 this is where Country swing & hillbilly combine to show some rockin' roots and a move towards what we today call Rockabilly, Skeets, as usual sounds quality and both songs and they both roll and swing with ease ........complete and mighty sweet!
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