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"Fans of Bill Monroe's music are aware that Edd Mayfield sang and played guitar with the "Father of Bluegrass" during several periods in the 1950s. Others may be aware that Mayfield recorded a rare guitar solo on the 1958 Monroe recording of "Panhandle Country." Mayfield only recorded twenty songs with Monroe.
Fans of Mayfield's music were therefore excited when in 2006, Patuxent Music (www. pxrec.com) released a CD of previously unreleased recordings of Mayfield and his brothers. The Mayfield Brothers: Vintage Recordings 1948 - 1956 presents Edd and brothers Smokey and Herb on 21 bluegrass style songs and instrumentals. Edd's great singing and masterful rhythm guitar will be no surprise to those familiar with his Monroe recordings. It is surprising to hear Edd's lead guitar featured on six of the recordings. These have to be among the first bluegrass-style lead guitar breaks ever recorded. With no model to base his style upon, Mayfield has to be considered one of the innovators of the bluegrass lead guitar style."
-- portion of an article written by Joe Carr for Flat Picking Magazine May/June 2007 issue.
Born and raised on the Green Valley Ranch near Dawn Texas in 1926,
Thomas Edward "Edd" Mayfield and his brothers Herb and Smokey were |
among the first musicians on the plains of West Texas to embrace this
basically eastern mountain-born bluegrass music. Like many others in the
region, they gained a heightened awareness of the outside world with the
introduction of the radio.
In 1950, Edd received a message to call Bill Monroe. Monroe, remembering
Edd's singing and playing skills, had called to offer him a job in his band.
It was a terrible dilemma for the group, but after some discussion they decided
that Edd should not pass up this opportunity. This was to be the first of three
stints for Edd under Monroe's tutelage.
We have now uploaded a new song, a Bad Ass Christmas Country song called "Cow Bell" (originally called "Jingle Bell") so if you miss being a cowboy when you have to dress out as Santa, so check out this song and you will remember who you are. It has a lot of cows and cowbells in it so you will be satisfied.
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yeah we're prolly goin to get tickets soon so we don't have to worry about getting up there and trying to scalp them or whatever its called. so i'll let you know when we get them and you can just do that with us so we known all our seats will be together and stuff. but you should for sure go!
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call me asap and let me know if you're goin to the show with us. you better go !! E19384240
Wow, what great music. I love it. Was unfamiliar with this chapter of music history, but thanks for sharing it. Amazing that those old recordings are still available. Thanks for the add request.
