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Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Trio

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Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Trio – Don’t Desert Me

Dionysus Records – ID074524
Don’t Desert Me / I’m gonna Leave

Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Trio

Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Trio recorded this single in 1991, the year following the release of their first album and Bobby Trimble’s replacement of drummer Will B.
Side A is a beautiful medium Rockabilly. The B side is just as successful, a superb melancholic ballad highlighted by the voice of Big Sandy/Robert Williams and the delicate pickin’ of TK Smith. Both songs are from Williams’ pen. The 45 version was released on Dionysus Records, but there is a much rarer 78 rpm version that the group published on Jeems Records, its own label (Jeems 1085).

Fred ”Virgil” Turgis

Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Trio
Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Trio – left to right: TK Smith, Big Sandy (Robert Williams), Bobby Trimble, Wally Hersom

Country Cabin Boys (the)

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Country Cabin Boys (the)

country cabin boys

Wounded Knee Polka/ Lucky’s Lullaby
Ecco-Fonic – EF 1002 [1994]

Formed by members of the Fly-Rite Boys, The Country Cabin Boys were more a recording project than an actual band. They were Ashley Kingman on guitar, Lee Jeffriess on steel guitar, Bobby Trimble on drums, and ex-Ecco-Fonic Johnny Noble on double bass. Wally Hersom avoided bass duties to concentrate on the recording.
The band performed instrumental hillbilly jazz in the same vein Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant did.
A-side is a polka featuring a guest appearance by former Fly-Rite Trio member, the great TK Smith.
The flip-side, Lucky’s Lullaby, would later appear in an updated version called “Rhapsody In Violet” on the Fly-Rite Boys solo album “Big Sandy presents…”

Fred “Virgil” Turgis