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Not very much is known concerning this totally unique three-piece string music group from Georgia which produced just six recordings for Okeh within the 1920s. However the instrumental mix of musical noticed, electric guitar, and fiddle provides perhaps hardly ever been repeated, unless one examines the lineup of avant-garde free of charge improvising groupings which appear to possess used every instrumental mixture recognized to mankind. The brothers Albert and Vander Everidge taken care of the noticed and electric guitar, respectively, with Vander in charge of the hot choosing on “Blue Lawn Twist” and “Bibb State Grind.” Fiddler Melgie Ward curved out the trio and it is remembered for a few from the loudest foot-tapping actions available. Within a genre where foot-tapping is known as an important area of the actions, and it is seldom discouraged, the documenting engineer apparently needed to stay a cushion under this fiddler’s feet to keep carefully the foot sounds from overtaking totally. Albert’s three sons Alton, Al, and Reuben Everidge all became music artists and continued the family custom working and documenting in some string bands. There have been some reports which the South Georgia Highballers continued to be a dynamic group within the Macon region on / off until as past due in the ’70s, but no proof any further saving activity has resulted in.
