Hapeville String Band
| Hapeville String Band | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Old-time music |
| founding | around 1922 |
| resolution | around 1924 |
| Founding members | |
| Charlie Whitten | |
| Mike "Miles" Whitten | |
| WL Whitten | |
| JB Barron | |
| Ted Hawkins | |
| Riley Puckett | |
guitar |
Boss Hawkins |
The Hapeville String Band was an American string band from Georgia . The group consisted primarily of well-known old-time musicians, but only existed for a few years.
history
The Hapeville String Band named themselves after their place of origin Hapeville , Georgia. Between 1922 and 1924, the band made numerous appearances on the WSB station in Atlanta , making them one of the first rural music groups to appear on WSB and on the radio.
The group's singer was Riley Puckett, who would become one of America's most successful old-time musicians in the mid-1920s. He played guitar and made his first recordings for Columbia Records in 1924 with Gid Tanner . Puckett later played with various members of the Hapeville String Band.
Ted Hawkins was the group's mandolinist and is considered one of the earliest old-time, or later country musicians to play the mandolin. He later worked intensively with Riley Puckett and accompanied him on his tours. Hawkins' possible brother Boss was also a member of the Hapeville String Band.
Charlie, Miles and WL Whitten were all related to each other and represent more obscure figures in the Atlantean music scene. Miles is probably a misspelling of the "Atlanta Journal", which announced the program of the station WSB and is actually called Mike. Mike Whitten was a founding member of Clayton McMichen's Hometown Boys and was part of a group of musicians in the late 1920s who recorded a number of jazz- oriented tracks.
The Hapeville String Band disappeared from the music scene with the increasing other activities of the members.
literature
- Wayne W. Daniel: Pickin 'On Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia , p. 53; University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-06968-4