Hank Barnes himself was just the entrepreneur who put this band on the vaudeville circuit, one of the earliest attempts to create a more popular and commercial country-based music. The Roe Brothers and Jack Reedy have turned up on these tapes before. Lonnie Austin (1905-), better known as a fiddler with Charlie Poole's North Carolina Ramblers, is still active as a musician at 90. This is also one of the Kilroy-like appearances of Alfonzo Percy "Frank" Wilson, one of the best of the early slide guitarists.
H,M. Barnes’ Blue Ridge Ramblers, Frank Williams, Fred Roe, Jim Smith, fiddles; Frank Wilson, steel guitar; Harry Brown, mandolin; Jack Reedy, banjo; Henry Roe, guitar; Lonnie Austin, piano,
New York NY 1/28/29 Brunswick 327
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