"Furniture Man"

by Bill Chitwood and Bud Landress

Vintage country music from an obscure Brunswick side, recorded in April of 1925 - the instrument balance favors the vocal over everything else, but this copy has a quiet surface so nothing is truly buried. These two guys constitute one-half of the pioneer country band "Georgia Yellow Hammers", featured elsewhere in this archive. While the music gets your toe tapping, the lyrics tell a sad tale of reposession and destitution at the hands of that "devil who was born without any horns" - a pre-echo of Frankie Laine's "Jezebel" as well as Hoyt Axton's "Pusher Man".
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