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Post #684792 by Otto on Fri, Jul 5, 2013 11:37 PM

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Otto posted on Fri, Jul 5, 2013 11:37 PM

On 2013-07-04 12:39, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:

On 2013-07-04 12:28, Cammo wrote:
**Greatest Hillbillies of All Time

#15 Rose Maddox **

Well I can't give you a hard time over this one, Since Rose was my Great Aunt
but they always thought of them selves as a "Western Swing band" and spent almost their entire
professional career based in California.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwUmg_2xBpA -in her own words....

[ Edited by: Atomic Tiki Punk 2013-07-04 12:50 ]

Perfect example of a Hillbilly that is close to "HulaBilly" - more Urban, more Pop(ular), more Rockabilly than Hillbilly and Country music. unfortunately they never strayed into Hawaiian music territory.
Though The Hawaiian Hootenanny Boy did record with Rose Maddox
http://www.silcom.com/~peterf/releases/cunha_bio.htm