The Hickory Nuts

Band names are manufactured for a number of reasons along with a number of methods. Occasionally a name can be an accurate explanation of the group’s music, during other conditions the music an organization plays has progressed to match a name which was chosen randomly from a dictionary. Regarding this NEW YORK string music group from the ’20s and ’30s, a straightforward recommendation from a bandmember offered a name once the as-yet-untagged group is at a studio prepared to slice songs for the Okeh label. “Well, we are all from Hickory, and we’re a couple of nut products,” stated one member, so the Hickory Nut products had been born. The Nut products had been, more particularly, Julius Plato “Nish” McClured on banjo and vocal, Horace Propst on acoustic guitar and vocal, and Perry Probst on fiddle. The banjoist, whose prolonged name appears like the start of a crib sheet for any classics examination, was employed in a textile mill in Newton, NC, once the music group was created. The Nut products kept forth at numerous rectangular dances and fiddle conventions and in addition had been among the uncommon old-time string rings to try supplying vocals for silent movies. In 1927, the group journeyed later on to Winston Salem to record six edges for Okeh, two which had been never released. Probably the most well-known of the songs was the tune “Louisville Burglar,” that was reissued for the State album Aged Time Ballads Through the Southern Mountains. McClured discovered to try out the three-finger design for the banjo as a boy we were young in Cleveland State, but fell significantly short of attaining the type of achievement another banjoist out of this same region achieved. That might be none apart from Earl Scruggs, who popularized the banjo design all over the world through film and tv soundtrack performances. There will be no Beverly Hillbillies or “Theme for Bonnie and Clyde” for McClured, but he do continue using this music group before ’30s. Guitarist Probst passed away in 1929 and was changed by Gurney Thomas. In the first ’70s, the boy of McClured was monitored down by way of a journalist from Aged Time Music Mag and recalled how the music group had lower more sides within the ’30s, but, sadly, this material hasn’t been discovered. The Nut products finally known as it quits in 1935 following loss of life of Perry Probst.