Backroads and Banjos with Art Rosenbaum on AM1690

Backroads and Banjos with Art Rosenbaum on AM1690


The Skillet Lickers

December 11, 2013

This episode Backroads and Banjos features a trip to Dacula, GA to visit the son and grandson of Gid Tanner, the legendary member of the Skillet Lickers. One of the first string bands to be recorded, the Skillet Lickers were perhaps Georgia's most popular export in the 1920s and 1930s selling over a million copies of their 78s. Today, the Skillet Lickers live on and still play many of the same songs made famous by Gid Tanner and the rest of the gang.