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Coon Creek Girls
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The Coon Creek Girls were a popular all-girl "string band" in the Appalachian style of folk music (a precursor of country music) which began in the mid-1930s. Created (and named) by John Lair for his Renfro Valley Barn Dance show, the band originally consisted of sisters Lily May and Rosie Ledford (from Powell County, Kentucky) along with Esther "Violet" Koehler (from Indiana) and Evelyn "Daisey" Lange (from Ohio). A fixture on the Renfro Valley Barn Dance for over fifteen years, the Coon Creek Girls developed into one of the best known all-women string bands in early Country music. Whereas many other women performers of the 1930’s tended toward sentimental or even cowboy songs (e.g. Patsy Montana, the Girls of the Golden West and the Three Little Maids), the Coon Creek Girls were distinctive, because they all played their own instruments, and because they used a repertoire of southern mountain tunes. When Eleanor Roosevelt asked them to play in Washington, D.C. for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939, she chose them knowing that they reflected an authentic mountain style filtered through their own remarkable talent. Though the personnel of the Coon Creek Girls varied over the years, the original cornerstone of the group was the remarkably talented, Lily May Ledford. She was born in a beautiful but remote section of Powell County in eastern Kentucky, called Big River Gorge. The seventh child of a family of ten boys and four girls, she grew up on a tenant farm, enriche
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The Rose & The Briar
Coon Creek Girls
Lily May, Rosie & Susie
Early Radio Favorites
Coon Creek Girls' Banjo Pickin' Girl
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The Best Of Can't You Hear Me Callin' - Bluegrass: 80 Years Of American Music
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Country Music - A Film by Ken Burns (The Soundtrack) [Deluxe]
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Old Time Mountain Banjo
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Flowers In The Wildwood
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Country Girls - The Early Years
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Dr DooHelga
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Bluegrass Bonanza