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Sporting Cowboy

  • The Sporting Cowboy

    Wilmer Watts (1896-1943) was a cotton mill worker from Belmont, North Carolina who recorded several times for the Paramount label, purveyors of the worst-recorded, worst-pressed records of all time. The elusive Frank Wilson appears here again.

    Wilmer Watts, vocal, banjo; Frank Wilson, steel guitar,

    Chicago IL 4/27 Paramount 3006

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