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Guitar Blues
The DeZurik Sisters
Vocalion 04704
(1938)
When Cliff Carlisle first recorded "Guitar Blues" back in 1931, it was a standard Blue Yodel of the Jimmie Rodgers persuasion. Seven years later, the DeZurik Sisters would record it and turn it into a wild display of instrumental impressionism.
The only real instrument featured is a sole acoustic guitar, but their vocal dexterity layers a foundation of vocal effects: yodels, tweedles, growls, scat, bird calls and a falsetto imitation of steel guitar licks.
No one else in hillbilly was doing anything close to this.
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