Roy Book Binder - Bookeroo - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Roy Book Binder - Hillbilly Blues Cats [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/21/1994

Roy's 1971 tribute to his teachers, mentors & influences from the country blues tradition, 12 tracks from orig. Album + bonus track InchCandy ManInch

Cowboy Roy Brown was born in Arkansas on April 20, 1875, the son of a preacher. He and his sister learned to play guitar from their father who they accompanied when he played violin in church. In his twenties, Roy visited St Louis during the 1904 World's Fair and later moved to Kansas City, then Marion, Illinois and then drifted to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Deadwood, South Dakota. Roy eventually returned to St Louis where he was a street singer performing with his guitar and catalog of blues, folk and cowboy tunes. Roy and his band - a guitar named InchBabyInch and a kazoo named InchLeonInch - performed cowboy standards and popular tunes. All of which can be heard here on this collection of previously unissued mid-'50s recordings.