[78-L] Grayson and Whitter "Going Down Lee Highway" with BillBroonzy Composer Credit

[Gregg Kimball]

Joe Wilson's liner notes to County 3517, "The Recordings of Grayson and 
Whitter," state that "He [Grayson] composed Going Down the Lee Highway in 
September 1929 as Whitter's Model T chugged down U.S. Route 11 in northeast 
Tennessee (known locally as Lee Highway) on the way to a Memphis recording 
session." Indeed, Tony Russell shows the tune recorded on September 30, 
1929, in Memphis (their last recording session), matrix # 56313-1.

I still love driving down sections of the old Lee Highway here in Virginia.

Gregg Kimball


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From: "Richard Blaustein" <rjblaustein at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 5:18 PM
Subject: [78-L] Grayson and Whitter "Going Down Lee Highway" with 
BillBroonzy Composer Credit


> On March 30, 1929, fiddler G.B. Grayson from Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee 
> and
> guitarist Henry Whitter
> recorded "Going Down Lee Highway," issued on Victor 23565.
>
> This same fiddle tune was reissued by Victor on Bluebird 5498. Both the
> Victor and Bluebird releases
> list Bill Broonzy as the composer of this tune.
>
> Broonzy learned to play fiddle when he was a young boy in Mississippi and
> fiddled on a few
> records with Charlie Patton and the State Street Boys, but then went on to
> become a famous guitar-playing blues singer, whose major hits included
> "Lonesome Road Blues" and "Key To The Highway."
>
> Did Bill Broonzy have anything to do with the composition of Grayson and
> Whitter's "Going Down Lee Highway," or was this possibly the result of a
> clerical error by an overworked secretary at Victor Records?
>
> Any assistance you can provide in shedding light on this mindboggling
> mystery will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Richard Blaustein
> 1303 Buffalo Street
> Johnson City, TN 37604
> rjblaustein at gmail.com
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