Weems String Band

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Weems String Band
General information
Genre (s) Old-time music
founding 1928
resolution 1930
Founding members
Dick Weems
Frank Weems
Jesse Weems
Alvin Condor
guitar
 unknown

The Weems String Band was an American string band . She is best known for her version of the greenback dollar .

Career

The Weems String Band consisted primarily of members of the Weems family from Perry County , Tennessee . The group was formed around 1928 from the brothers Frank and Dick Weems, from Jesse Weems and from Alvin Condor, who had married a Weems sister. In a photograph of the Weems String Band, two guitarists are shown, but their identities have not been clarified. The signature of the photo reads: " The Weems String Band of Popf [?], TENN - Radio and Phonograph Recores [?] ". In 1928 the Weems String Band played a single on Columbia Records , which was released in August 1928 (Columbia D-15300). The titles were the well-known Traditional Greenback Dollar with Davy on the back . These pieces would remain your only material ever recorded.

But the technology of the Weems String Band is far more remarkable. Frank and Dick Weems played their fiddles in an attitude that was only used in classical music . In rural areas like Perry County, these techniques were largely unknown and never used by old-time fiddlers. Another component was Jesse Weems' cello, one of the most unknown instruments in old-time music . One can say with certainty that the recordings of the Weems String Band were probably the only recordings of an old-time group with cello.

The Weems String Band disappeared from the music scene around 1930. Alvin Condor later worked as a member of the Grand Ole Opry at WSM in Nashville , Tennessee . The Weems String Band continues to be considered one of the most obscure bands in the history of old-time and country music .

Discography

year title Remarks
Columbia Records
1928 Greenback dollar / Davy

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