Slim Bryant

Slim Bryant ( born December 7, 1908 in Atlanta, Georgia, as Thomas Hoyt Bryant, † 28 May, 2010 Dormont, Pennsylvania) was an American country musician, who worked for years as a guitarist for Clayton McMichen. Bryant was the last musician who played with Jimmie Rodgers and the Skillet Lickers.

  • 2.1 Singles
  • 2.2 albums

Life

Childhood and youth

Slim Bryant was born in 1908 in Atlanta as the youngest of six sons. His father was an electrician, who played fiddle and mandolin while his mother wrote songs, played guitar and piano. According to an interview with Rich Kienzle, which appeared in the Post Gazette, she was 104 years old. Bryant grew up with the traditional music of Fiddlin ' John Carson and Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers, but was also influenced by the local jazz musician Perry Bechtel, the banjo and played guitar. Only after finishing the High School Bryant began playing guitar.

With Clayton McMichen

1929 Bryant was first heard on a record. With Elmer McMichen, Clayton McMichens uncle, he made on March 15, 1929 Okeh Records his first recordings and learned by Elmer Clayton know McMichen, who invited him on a tour with Skillet Lickers the. "The deal that we'd all go down the Birmingham and divide up whatever money we made. So I took off work on Wednesday and Thursday and we played at this big festival. All the Skillet Lickers were there, Uncle Dave Macon and the McGees. I had to go back to Atlanta to play a baseball game, so I left. I never got paid a dime for the show. "

In May 1931 Bryant gave up his day job to work as a guitarist in McMichens band to play the Georgia Wildcats. For McMichen Bryant was the perfect accompanist, as he was well versed in the ancient Old- Time Music and at the same time could play jazz. For the next six years, he toured with McMichen by the United States, was heard on the radio and played on his albums.

In the summer of 1932, Bryant accompanied with McMichen the star Jimmie Rodgers on a session where Rodgers also Bryants composition Mother, Queen of My Heart grossed. Overall, Bryant wrote in his career, more than 200 pieces.

Careers in Pittsburgh

In 1937, parted ways McMichen and Bryant, who with Jerry Wallace now to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was moved to hear about KDKA. Bryant use for his own band, also named Georgia Wildcats and began to put into Pittsburgh as a musician foot. He now came every day at KDKA on and his band, now only known as closed Wildcats also Al Azzaro ( accordion) and Bryant's brother Loppy one.

Mid -1940s, Bryant and the Wildcats got a recording contract with Majestic Records in 1946 with Eeny Meeny and had Dixie Deeny a small hit. Zeke Manners recorded a version for RCA Victor and made the song a much bigger hit. In addition to Bryant's commercial recordings for Majestic he played in New York City for the thesaurus library a total of 287 titles, which were sent to radio stations. As at 1 January 1949 for the first time the TV station WDTV went on the air in Pittsburgh, Bryant was the first, which was seen over the Pittsburgh program; he appeared in a variety show from Oakland. In the 1950s, Bryant still had many engagements. Although a recording contract with MGM Records failed, were he and his band now and then nationally broadcast in the U.S. on ABC Jubilee.

Beginning of the 1960s broke the Wildcats on, since Jerry Wallace moved to Las Vegas and Loppy brother died in 1968 from lung cancer. Bryant then opened a shop in Dormont, a suburb of Pittsburgh, and was in his own studio guitar lessons. In 1980 he completed his business and seven years later his wife died, Mary Jane.

Slim Bryant stepped up to his death publicly, lived in Dormont and gave guitar lessons. He had a guitar, a Gibson L-5, with whom he played for 70 years, she used due to arthritis but not more often. The British Archive of Country Music gave out a total of three CDs with Bryant's collected works. He was inducted into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985.

Slim Bryant died in 2010 at the age of 101 years at St. Clair Hospital in Dormont.

Discography

Singles

Albums

  • 2009: Hoyt "Slim" Bryant and his Wildcats ( BACM )
  • 2009: Hoyt "Slim" Bryant and his Wildcats, Volume 2 ( BACM )
  • 2009: Hoyt "Slim" Bryant and his Wildcats, Volume 3 ( BACM )
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