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title	:	Truth Is Stranger Than Publicity
author	:	Delmore, Alton.
publisher	:	Vanderbilt University Press
isbn10 | asin	:
print isbn13	:	9780915608157
ebook isbn13	:	9780585132754
language	:	English
subject	Delmore, Alton, Country musicians--United States--Biography.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	ML420.D443A3 1995eb
ddc	:	782.42/1642/092
subject	:	Delmore, Alton, Country musicians--United States--Biography.

Page iii The Delmore Brothers Truth Is Stranger than Publicity by Alton Delmore Edited, with introduction and discography, by Charles K. Wolfe Country Music Foundation Press Nashville, Tennessee Distributed by Vanderbilt University Press

Page iv Country Music Foundation Press 4 Music Square East Nashville, Tennessee 37203 1977, 1995 by Country Music Foundation Press All rights reserved. Second edition published 1995 Printed in the United States of America First edition published in 1977 as Truth Is Stranger than Publicity: Alton Delmore's Autobiography Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 95-69025 ISBN 0-915-608-15-4

Page v Contents Introduction vii One: Boyhood Days 1 Two: Adolescent Days 11 Three: High School Days 24 Four: The Cafe, the Printing Office 29 Five: The Brown's Ferry Country 34 Six: The Old Fiddlers' Conventions 41 Seven: Our First Record 51 Eight: We Audition for the Grand Ole Opry 69 Nine: Trials and Tribulations 81 Ten: The Way the Opry Was in the Early Thirties 94 Eleven: Personal AppearancesUncle Dave Macon, Sam & Kirk McGee 103 Twelve: Personalities at WSM 118 Thirteen: The Places We Lived in Nashville 131

Page vi Fourteen: Behind the ScenesNo. 1 143 Fifteen: We Meet the Jimmie Rodgers Kinfolks in Meridian; The Trip to New OrleansMaking Records, A Hard Task 152 Sixteen: Behind the ScenesNo. 2 172 Seventeen: Joe Frank, Pee Wee King, Trouble Stalks 182 Eighteen: Roy Acuff Comes to Nashville 194 Nineteen: Leaving the Opry 208 Twenty: On Tour in North Carolina 219 Twenty-One: The Greenville Days 232 Twenty-Two: Roaming 236 Twenty-Three: Washington Days 246 Twenty-Four: Back to Birmingham 260 Twenty-Five: Our Days at WLW 272 Editor's Postscript: The Delmores' Last Years, 194564 285 Discography 297 Index 321

Page vii Introduction The 1980s and 1990s have seen a virtual explosion of books by and about country music figures: autobiographies, memoirs, biographies, journalistic portraits, as-told-to accounts, collections of interviews, and even works of fiction. While some of these are superficial or self-serving accounts intended for fan consumption, many can qualify as serious source documentsfirst-person accounts that offer real insight into the workings of country music as a commercial art form. Future historians will not lack for material when they seek to understand the development of post-World War II country music culture. This is not the case, unfortunately, for earlier country music. Unlike motion pictures, pop music, jazz, or even blues, very few of the defining figures of this art form have left us any substantial first-hand accounts. We have no interviews, much less autobiographies, of figures like Fiddlin' John Carson, Jimmie Rodgers, A. P. Carter, Uncle Dave Macon, Charlie Poole, Vernon Dalhart. We have few detailed accounts of the music's first two decades, that all-important era when it suddenly and mysteriously transformed itself from a rural folk music into an urban commercial music. This is one of the reasons why the discovery and original publication of

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