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Article: Uncle Dave Macon: Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy.(Sound Recording Review)
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- January 1, 2005
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UNCLE DAVE MACON Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy Bear Family 15978
Uncle Dave Macon--"The Dixie Dewdrop"--is a pivotal artist in early country music. Influenced early in life by circus and vaudeville performers who passed through his family's hotel in Nashville, Dave was exposed to many styles of performance and in 1885 he met banjo player Joel Davidson and became captivated by the instrument. By the 1890s, Dave was entertaining stagecoach passengers with banjo tunes and comic antics from a homemade stage on the roof of the family's barn. Once automobiles put an end to his mule wagon hauling business, he made a career decision that would forever alter country ...
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Article: Macon, Uncle Dave
The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana;
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...00-00-0000 Macon, Uncle Dave Macon, Uncle Dave (1870-1953) The first major star of the GRAND OLE OPRY. An accomplished banjo picker, singer, and homespun comic, Macon was approaching sixty when he joined the Opry (1926), but he ...
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