Buck Mountain Band - Don't Let the Blues Get You Down

...until your last drink of whiskey is gone.Originally recorded by the Buck Mountain Band from Galax, VA. They travelled to my hometown of Richmond to record for OKeh records in 1929 . Wade Ward played 3 finger banjo in this band!

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• whiskey
• nate
• layne

[Bayrum78]

Hello friend, glad you like it! What great musicians they were! Their ragtime arrangment of this song played out of F flat is quite unusual and distinctive in old time mountain music. I played banjo-guitar in the video and I absolutely love the guitar arrangement- it is perfect! I also uploaded a version of the other number they recorded Hesitation Blues in case you're interested. Thanks for posting - it's very meaningful to me to communicate with the descendents of my musical heroes.

[superscruf]

Hey y'all - my great grandfather Van played fiddle on the original '29 track, with Earl on guitar - I LOVED hearing this - thank you so much!

[rbseaver]

Y'all sound great together. I can't get over how authentic this sounds. This song is a sibling of "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues", recorded by Charlie Poole a few years earlier. You truly have conjured up the old greats, and have something great going here.