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Uncle Dave Macon: Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy (Bear Family)

Tony Russell, Maverick, September 2004

UNCLE DAVE MACON was the first real star of country music. True, Fiddlin' John Carson got on disc first: Uncle Dave made his debut recording on July 8, 1924, by which time Carson had been in the studio three times and cut more than two dozen sides.

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