Three Tobacco Tags

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Three Tobacco Tags
Luther Baucom and Reidsumy
Luther Baucom and Reidsumy
General information
Genre (s) Old-time music
founding 1930
resolution 1949
Founding members
Luther Baucom
Guitar , vocals
Reid Sumy
Mandolin, singing
Sam Pridgen, George Wade
How Can I Keep My Mind on Driving? , 1938

The Three Tobacco Tags , later just Tobacco Tags , were an American old-time band from North Carolina .

Career

The Tobacco Tags were founded in 1931 by Henry Luther "Luke" Baucom (born December 18, 1902 ) from McDowell County and Edgar Reidsumy (born June 9, 1903 ) from Gaston County . In May 1931, Samuel Lee Pridgen (born February 13, 1910 ) from Henderson found the group. With the recording of Pridgen, Tobacco Tags began playing their music on the WPTF broadcaster in Raleigh on their show The Songs of the Tobacco Tags . Her repertoire was a mix of novelty and sentimental titles.

From 1936 the band could be heard every day on WPTF. Pridgen, who had switched to the Swing Billies , was replaced by George Wade on the mandolin . The group had already made their first recordings for Champion Records in 1932 and thanks to their popularity, the Tobacco Tags now got the chance to record songs with Bluebird Records , which they did well into the 1940s. In 1938 the group was expanded to include two former Swing Billies members, while George Wade left again. On one of their Bluebird sessions, the band also accompanied harmonica virtuoso Gwen Foster on his last recordings, including a version of the Side Line Blues .

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Tobacco Tags had moved to Richmond , Virginia , where they performed on WRVA and were part of the ensemble of WRVA's successful Old Dominion Barn Dance .

The Tobacco Tags separated in 1949. Luther Baucom died in 1968.

Discography

Discography is not exhaustive. All of the Bluebird singles were also released on Montgomery Ward .

year title # Remarks
Bluebird Records
1938 Be Good Baby / Good Gal, Remember Me BB-7482
1938 How Can I Keep My Mind on Driving? / Never Was a Married Man BB-7533
Who's Sorry Now / Wild Bill Jones BB-8365
I'll Get a Pardon in Heaven / Sunset on the Prairie BB-8396
My Own Iona / I'm Sorry It Ended This Way BB-8420
Sweethearts Forever / Pagan Love Song BB-8496
1940 Let Us All Stay At Home / A Paper of Pins BB-8538
With a Pal Like You / Rock Me to Sleep In the Old Rocking Chair BB-8572
Midnight On the Stormy Deep / Hawaiian Melody BB-8603
I Saw Your Face in the Moon / Just Plain Folks BB-8647
Best Girl of All / You Didn't Mean It BB-8855
Gypsy's Warning / Anna from Indiana BB-8942
Little Rose Covered Garden / Little Red Piggie BB-8995

literature

  • Bob Carlin, Steve Terrill: String Bands in the North Carolina Piedmont (2004), pp. 181-183; McFarland. ISBN 0786418265

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