Tag Archives: H.M. Barnes’ Blue Ridge Ramblers

Just who have the heck is H.M. Barnes? Well, imagine if Elvis “The Ruler” Presley proceeded to go beneath the stage name of “the Colonel’s Elvis Presley.” Barnes was a ’20s promoter who strike the road establishing tour times for the old-timey string music group he fronted firmly like a …

Introduced to music by his pops, Lonnie Austin continued to try out fiddle with a number of the great old-timey string rings, including Charlie Poole as well as the NEW YORK Ramblers and Kelly Harrell’s Virginia String Group. Austin appears to have been delivered with musical skill. When he was …

Charlie Poole & the NEW YORK Ramblers were probably one of the most popular string rings from the 1920s. If indeed they didn’t possess the foot-stomping exuberance of the chief rivals, Georgia’s Skillet Lickers, they provided a debonair accuracy which was similarly infectious. Infused with ragtime and pop, their music …