Another little break in the flow of things with something a little different
1952-54 - Country All-Stars
The thing that it's always important to remember is that for all the jokes and stuff, Homer and Jethro were really really good musicians. The comedy wouldn't work as well if they weren't. So it's not much of a stretch to imagine that between H & J recordings they might find time to record some with Chet Atkins and the studio guys a few straight and instrumental tracks from days gone by. (They certainly seemed to have a pretty encyclopedic knowledge of vintage song) A sort of in studio early super group as it were.
It's also not far fetched that they'd end up releasing these recordings under a different name to keep them a little separated from the funny stuff.
The Country All-Stars only released a handful of singles and a 10" record in their brief recorded existence collected here. (I don't have originals for these because they're pretty hard to find and already collected for me on this compact disc.)
They run through some small country combo versions of any number of jazz standards like "Stomping at the Savoy" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" with a light and effortless swing that satisfies like a smooth Chesterfield should and fill things out with a few more tracks of Homer singing other favorites from their youth in the 30's.
Later Homer and Jethro would go on to put out a couple Lps of instrumental recordings and an Lp of funny 30's hits under their own name, but until I get there in a few weeks you've got this to keep you busy.
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