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Frank Hutchison discographical question
banjochris:
Here's a weird one - something I've been wondering about for a while and I was reminded of it by a YouTube video.
There's a recording of Frank Hutchison playing "Wreck of the Old 97" on harmonica and guitar that is not on the Document CD. I have it on an Old Homestead album that came out in the early 1980s called West Virginia Hills (it has other tracks by Bill Cox, Kessingers etc.).
The LP lists this recording as a previously unreleased harmonica number. It's not in Tony Russell's book, but there's also no obvious gap in matrix numbers (a few unissued/rejected numbers are listed). Listening to the track I don't think there's any doubt at all that it's Hutchison. Does anyone know anything more about this?
Here's the track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11a-6fjiOF8
Bunker Hill:
I emailed Tony and he's come back with this info:
This was overlooked in CMR, but I picked up the omission later, and the
emended text would now read:
Frank Hutchison, h; acc. own g.
New York, NY. Friday, January 28, 1927
80350-B Stackalee OK 45106
80351- The Wild Horse OK 45093
80352- Long Way To Tipperary OK 45089
80353- The Gospel Ship OK unissued: OH OHCS141 (LP)
Matrix 80353 is erroneously titled The Wreck Of The Old 97 on Old Homestead
OHCS141.
uncle bud:
I'm not sure I understand. That's Wreck of the Old 97 in the recording. Gospel Ship (the version I know is by the Carter Family) is a different song.
banjochris:
Interesting. Perhaps OKeh mistitled it in the first place and Old Homestead corrected it, 'cause UB is right, that's definitely Old 97 and not Gospel Ship. Alan, thanks for checking with Tony -- seems like we still have a bit of a mystery though!
Chris
frailer24:
This reminds me of the Hutchison disk my great-grandfather made around 1940 or so. Frank played guitar behind him on a few numbers, then played a few banjo tunes. I have a tape copy and the original disc.
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