Walter Couch (+ Wilks Ramblers)

By Tony Russell, Thieu Van DeVorst

SESSIONS

17 February 1937 Hotel Charlotte, 237 West Trade St., Charlotte, NC -  Walter Couch and Wilks Ramblers  (Walter Couch [fiddle], Kelly Couch [gt], Bonson Couch [banjo], ? [vcl-1])

001 BS-07112-1 FOURTEEN DAYS IN GEORGIA  Bluebird B-7252 Montgomery Ward MW-7136/Vetco 2106 JSP 77131

002 BS-07113-1 LONESOME TRAIL -1  B-7095 MW7135  Twin FT 8474

003 BS-07114-1 WANT MY BLACK BABY BACK -1 B-7095 MW7135/JSP 77131

004 BS-07115-1  CHESAPEAKE BOY B-7252 MW7136/JSP 77100 JSP 77131

VETCO 2106 WONDERFUL WORLD OF OLDTIME FIDDLERS VOL.2  (1971); JSP 77100 MOUNTAINFROLIC RARE OLD TIMEY (UK, 2007, 4CD); JSP 77131 CLASSIC FIELD RECORDINGS 1936/1940 (UK, 2010, 4CD)

SINGLES

Bluebird

B-7095 Lonesome Trail / Want My Baby Back – 37 (reissued on Montgomery Ward M 7135 as by Mainer’s Mountaineers)

B-7252 Fourteen Days In Georgia / Chesapeake Boy – 37 (reissued on Montgomery Ward M 7136 as by Mainer’s Mountaineers)

Twin

FT 8474 Lonesome Trail / [Shep Fields]