Pier-Wats Records

F. Eddy Pierce with String Band -Pier-Wats Records # 1300 - 1956

Side A - Hold Back Tomorrow 

Side B - Your Kisses Don't Thrill Me Anymore

Here we have a RITE custom press from 1956 with both sides written by Eddy & James Watson and released as a custom pressing using their own label (Pier(ce) - Wats(on).

These are both great country tunes, not Rockabilly as you may expect from 1956, Eddy was still holding the country flame high & proud. 'Hold Back Tomorrow' is really nice little country shuffle weepie and has some lovely steel & fiddle and Eddy's voice is just great.

Flip it over and BOOM! we get some real quick moving hillbilly with fiddle, steel and all that magic stuff you would expect from a quality recording by some fine musicians. 

The 45 on Pier-Wats seems to be, out and around and quite easy to track down but this 78 version seems to be a bit of a mystery and pretty rare.

Contract Records.

Fairley Holden - Contract Records # 8151 - 1946

Side A - Keep Those Cold Icey Fingers Off Of Me

Side B - Sweetheart Mountain Rose (Holden Brothers)

Mr Holden does a pretty good job on this early hillbilly number, he has the right tone in his voice (not the crooner country sound) and delivers a real cool 1946 tune. Quality steel playing and steady rhythm guitar keeps this chugging along, then the fiddle and what you get is some sweet hillbilly music.

Fairley went onto record a whole bunch of great records over at King during the late 40's including this A side again in 1947 with Piano added to the ensemble. All his King output was in a real fast hillbilly style and was mighty mighty fine!