Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band
- Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band
Infobox musical artist
Name = Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band
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Years_active = 1920s-1930s
Origin = Oklahoma, USA
Genre = String band
Label = RCA Victor
Past_members = Henry Hall (1877-1941)
Harold Hall (1901-1986)
Clarence Hall (1908-1975)
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Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band was a Choctaw Indian string band from Oklahoma. The band was composed of members of the Hall family—Henry, father, on vocals and fiddle; and sons Clarence on guitar and Harold on banjo. They played from Wichita, Kansas. [Sisson, "The American Midwest", p. 385: "Big Chief Henry Hall of Wichita, Kansas, recorded commercially in Dallas in 1929, ..."]
H. C. Speir, a music promoter from Jackson, Mississippi, heard them playing at the Choctaw Indian Fair in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He got them a recording contract with RCA Victor, who recorded a number of songs in Dallas, October 14, 1929. [Wardlow, "Chasin' That Devil Music", pp. 146-147: "He [HC Speir] loved white fiddle music. He found a Choctaw Indian fiddle band from Oklahoma that was at the Philadelphia Choctaw Festival in the summertime and got them on Victor. Big Chief Henry was his name."]
Discography
:Original recording date October 14, 1929, Dallas. [Spottswod, "Ethnic Music on Records", p. 2928.] :
References
Bibliography
*Sisson, Richard; Christian K. Zacher; Andrew Robert Lee Cayton (eds.). "The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia". Indiana University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-253-34886-2
*Spottswood, Richard K. "Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942 & etc. (Vol. 5)". University of Illinois Press. 1990. ISBN 0-252-01723-4
*Wardlow, Gayle Dean. "Chasin' That Devil Music: Searching for the Blues". Backbeat Books, 1998. ISBN 0-87930-552-5
External links
* [http://www.neshoba.org/tourism/events/choctaw-indian-fair.php Choctaw Indian Fair] —Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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