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Video: A Performance of 'Columbus Stockade Blues'This forum post is dated 04/29/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. South Carolina - Bar Jobs
| Video: A Performance of 'Columbus Stockade Blues' Duet argued over who penned lyrics BY BRAD BARNES--Wherever they met, it's not hard to guess out how the two started talking. They shared an interest in music, and both grew up on farms. Their history is well-documented in the liner notes accompanying the complete collection of the duo's recordings. Tom Darby was born in Columbus in 1884. He was a farmhand and picked up other odd jobs as he could, finger-picking music on his guitar more or less as a hobby. Jimmie Tarlton, a drifter and son of South Carolina sharecroppers, was eight years Darby's junior. He'd already seen much of the country, traveling with his guitar and buskin' music on sidewalks when he ended up in Columbus, in 1927. Tarlton had played guitar since he was very young. He was 10 when he got the idea to set the instrument in his lap and use a knife handle to make his guitar melodies warble and weep. More than a decade later, he'd meet a Hawaiian guitarist named Frank Ferera who played similarly, and the two shared their tricks. When a man at that music store suggested Tarlton and Darby team up together, they were 35 and 42, respectively. That same music store fellow took them to Atlanta with other promising Columbus musicians for an audition with Columbia Records. Those audition recordings yielded two songs for Darby and Tarlton's first single on Columbia's country and hillbilly music imprint. One tune was a needling yarn called "Down in Florida on a Hog, " backed with a tune called "Birmingham Town." The X;b>...X;/b> |
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