By 1930, the Starr Piano Company had abandoned their 75-cent Gennett label, no country music fan having six bits left in his pocket and fell back on the discount Champion and deep-discount Superior labels. ' They got the brilliant Kentucky fiddler Tommy Whitmer, born in Muhlenburg County in 1886, to the studio once before quitting altogether in 1934.
Tommy Whitmer's Band: Tommy Whitmer, fiddle; Pete Woods, Banjo; Earl Nossinger, Enos Gossett, Guitars.
Richmond IN 9/16/30 Superior 2519
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