More String Band Music - Part 1 (1927-1928)

I recently obtained a copy of "Indian War Whoop," one of only four recordings ever made by Hoyt Ming and His Pep-Steppers, and it blew me away. I not only had to include it, I realized I had to go back and re-evaluate all of the string band music of the 1920s to see what other essential recordings I may have missed in my first pass. As it turns out, a lot. Here are half of them.

• Crockett Ward and His Boys, “Sugar Hill” (Okeh 45179, 1927)
• Hoyt “Floyd” Ming and His Pep-Steppers, “Indian War Whoop” (Victor 21294, 1928)
• Weems String Band, “Greenback Dollar” (Columbia 15300-D, 1928)
• Burnett & Rutherford, “All Night Long Blues” (Columbia 15314-D, 1928)

Next: the other half (1929-1931)...