Catalogue: JASMCD 3542
Price Code: A
Release Date: 01/04/2004
Bar Code: 604988 35422 5
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Cecil CAMPBELL & Tennessee RamblersSteel Guitar Swing
 
North Carolina has produced a fertile crop of
Country performers over the years, one son of the Tar Heel state was Cecil
Robert Campbell, who's career in Country music spanned the better part three
decades. Born into a farming family in 1911, tiling the soil and tending the
livestock was not for the young Campbell, when just twenty-one, with a wealth of
experience to his credit, he embarked upon a professional career in Country
music.In 1945 The Tennessee Ramblers recorded a handful of tunes for the newly
founded SUPER DISC label, one of those tunes was "Beaty Steel Blues", that
recording, backed by an instrumental by The Rambler Trio, featuring guitarist
Arthur Smith was issued in the fall of 1945. Although Arthur Smith was to go on
to achieve, arguably, a greater degree of success then Cecil Campbell, it was
Campbell who was picked up first by a major label; ironically, given the number
of years that he had been associated with the label, it was RCA-VICTOR which was
the parent company of the BLUEBIRD label. Campbell’s recording career, in his
own right, now began in earnest. Over the next six years Campbell recorded in
excess of fifty songs for RCA, amongst which was a number of steel guitar
instrumentals. Whilst his recording career was going from strength to strength,
Campbell was still a regular feature on WBT, and as the fifties progressed moved
onto Television in Charlotte. A brief spell with MGM in the mid/late fifties,
where he even had a stab at Rock & Roll, preceded his retirement as a
professional musician, although he did the odd recordings from time to time for
labels like STARDAY, and his own WINSTON label, he chose now to the develop and
manage his real estate holdings.
Produced by Al Turner
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