Sold Date: May 29, 2015
Start Date: May 7, 2015
Final Price: $18.00 $15.00 (USD)
Seller Feedback: 74
Buyer Feedback: 13

Up for auction is a very scarce LP.  It is in very nice condition.

Title: Texas Hoedown
Artists:  Bartow Riley, Vernon Solomon, Benny Thomasson
Label:  County Records 703 (307 - 311 East 37 St., New York 16, N.Y.)
Recorded by Charles Faurot, who wrote the detailed description of the album that appears on the back, dated October 10, 1965.  Charles Faurot (1936 - 2013) grew up in patrician New England and attended Andover Academy and Yale University.  He eventually became the Managing Director of the American Stock Exchange.  However, his lifelong love and avocation was recording talented rural musicians throughout the South, especially in state of Virginia.

Side One Tracks: 1.  Billy in the Low Ground - Benny Thomasson 2.  Sally Johnson - Vernon Solomon 3.  Ace of Spades - Benny Thomasson 4.  Bonaparte's Retreat - Benny Thomasson 5.  Sally Goodin - Bartow Riley 6.  Cripple Creek - Vernon Solomon 7.  Sunnyside - Vernon Solomon
Side Two Tracks: 1.  Beaumont Rag - Vernon Solomon 2.  Grey Eagle - Bartow Riley 3.  Black Mountain - Benny Thomasson 4.  Waynesboro Reel - Bartow Riley 5.  Laughing Boy - Benny Thomasson 6.  Sopping the Gravy - Vernon Solomon 7.  Lady's Fancy - Benny Thomasson
About the Fiddlers:
Benny Thomasson (1909 - 1984) won the Texas State Fiddling Championship a remarkable 15 times.  He also won the World Championship three years in a row (1955 - 1957) and the National Old-Time Fiddlers Championship.  In 1976, he appeared as a fiddle teacher in the Arnold Schwartzenegger movie Stay Hungry.  Remarkably, Texas Hoedown was his very first album.
Vernon Solomon (1924 - 1992) appeared with multiple family members, also fiddlers, in a group known as Solomon's Championship Fiddling.  He represented the State of Texas at the 1968 FolkLife Festival at the Smithsonian Institute.  In 1972, he won the Grand Masters Contest in Nashville.
Bartow Riley (1922 -   ) was one of the very first board members of the Texas Old Time Fiddlers Association.  He was inducted into the Texas State Championship Fiddler's Frolics Hall of Fame in 2004.  In addition to his excellence in playing, he has judged many competitions.

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