Wayne Raney
Wayne Raney (* August 17, 1920 or 1921 in Wolf Bayou, Cleburne County, Arkansas; † 23 January 1993 Drasco, Arkansas) was an American old-time and country musician and later studio and record label owner.
- 2.1 Singles
- 2.2 albums
Life
Childhood and youth
Wayne Raney was - according to sources - born in 1920 or 1921 in the small village of Wolf Bayou in central-eastern Arkansas on a farm. Due to a congenital deformity of his foot, he was not able to do heavy work in the fields. The age of five, he began to be interested in music, looking at a street corner, a one-armed harmonica player who inspired Raney, also to learn the harmonica. In his spare time he practiced ambitious and soon became a skilled musician.
Career
Age of 13, he left his native village, and went throughout the United States. His living he earned as a musician by appearing for money in clubs, bars and cafes. Around 1934, he played in Texas, as it the manager of the radio station XEPN from Piedras Negras, Mexico, on the other side of the Rio Grande committed. In 1936, he first met his idol, mentor and later longtime musical partners Lonnie Glosson, who also came from Arkansas. Raney Glosson heard regularly on KMOX in St. Louis, Missouri, and did in 1928 with him to a duo that on KARK in Little Rock, Arkansas, occurred. How many country artists of that time also attracted Raney and Glosson of radio station to radio station and played in the next 25 years - with interruptions - getting back together.
Raney made from the beginning of the 1940s also experience as a solo artist. He had to listen to different radio stations on the border with Mexico and KFWB in Hollywood, but soon moved to Covington, Kentucky, on the Ohio River, where he performed regularly in the transmitter WCKY program. Not just as a musician Raney was asked as a moderator and as a disc jockey, he was extremely popular. At this time he also established his own mail order business, which he sold harmonicas and instructions throughout the United States. Together with Lonnie Glosson he was instrumental in the dissemination of this instrument.
In 1945 he moved with Glosson to Memphis, Tennessee, where he met one evening on the Delmore Brothers. Raney had already pursued her career longer time and this evening the successful cooperation between Raney, Glosson and the originated Delmores. Shortly thereafter, he appeared together with the brothers on WMC and accompanied her in February 1946 to a recording session for the then record label of Delmores, King Records. On this occasion, Raney himself took the Harmonica Blues as a solo piece. At the next session he offered to producer Syd Nathan to accompany the session of the Delmore Brothers without pay, for which he was allowed to upload their own pieces in return. The result, The Fox Chase, has sold quite well.
In the coming years, Raney was regularly as harmonica player for background band of Delmores while the Delmores accompanied him on his own solo albums. In the following time Raney had with Lost John Boogie ( 1948), Jack and Jill Boogie ( 1949) some chart success. However, his biggest success was 1949, the rehearsed with Lonnie Glosson title Why Do not You Haul Off and Love Me, which reached the top of the country charts. With Glosson Raney played 1951 on the only number-one hit of the Delmore Brothers Blues Stay Away from Me harmonica. Stylistically, this time his career was marked by Country Boogie, a mixture of the popular before the war genre Boogie Woogie and rural country music that helped shape Raney and Delmores crucial.
In the 1950s, Raney was with Decca Records and dabbled with titles such as Undertakin ' Shake Baby Shake Daddy or on rockabilly. He also worked as a musician for Lefty Frizzell and took part in a tour of the Grand Ole Opry. On the radio, he has also been heard regularly in the major shows of the WWVA Jamboree, the California Hayride and the Louisiana Hayrides.
Later years
In the late 1950s Raneys decreased popularity. During this time he was, among other things for Starday Records and was active as a DJ. Raney returned to WCKY and tried in 1958 in the plate business. With Jimmie Zack he founded in 1958 Poor Boy Records in Muncie, Indiana, as a first attempt. In 1960 he gave up his mail order on, bought near Concord, Arkansas, a chicken farm and opened a recording studio, his label Rimrock Records and the single disc pressing plant in Arkansas where. For Rimrock he himself took on some albums. During this time he turned to the Country Gospel; its title We Need a Whole Lot More of Jesus ( and a Lot Less Rock and Roll ) attracted some attention in the folk scene.
In the 1970s, he was seen several times in the TV show Hee Haw, but his health deteriorated, so he had to sell Rimrock and his studio, his performances gave up and moved to Drasco, where he died of cancer in 1993. In the same year he was inducted into the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame. His autobiography Life Has Not Been a Bed of Roses was released in 1990.
Discography
Singles
- Why Do not You Haul Off and Love Me
- Fox Chase
- Lonesome Wind Blues
- A Little Pine Log Cabin
- Hand in Hand with Jesus
- I Found It in My Mother 's Bible
- Where No Cabins case
- The Uncloudy Day
- An Empty Mansion