Country by Nick Tosches

Author:Nick Tosches
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2012-01-31T21:00:00+00:00

Cliff Bruner’s Boys, 1939. Left to right: Moon Mullican, Acee Peveto (steel guitar), Logan Conger, Cliff Bruner, Buddy Dukon, Cotton Plant, KPAC radio announcer.

Wind my motor, honey,

I’ve got a double spring;

Place the needle in that hole

And do that nasty swing.

Yodelayeeyodelayeeyodelayee.

The master of smutsong in the 1930s was a man named Buddy Jones. He was a close friend of Jimmie Davis’s and worked in the Shreveport police force while Davis was involved in city government. He recorded for Decca from 1936 to 1942. (His first recordings were duets with Davis.) The band used in most of Jones’s sessions was Cliff Bruner’s, which went under different names: Cliff Bruner’s Texas Wanderers, Cliff Bruner’s Boys, and so on. (Born Clifton L. Bruner on April 25, 1915, in Texas, Cliff started out as a fiddler with Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies in 1936. He formed his own group— Bruner, fiddle; Bob Dunn, electric steel guitar; Moon Mullican, piano; Dickie McBride, guitar; Hezzie Brock, bass; and Will Raley, electric mandolin—and recorded extensively for Decca, under his own name and with Jimmie Davis, Buddy Jones, the Shelton Brothers, and others.)

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