Uncle Henry's Original Kentucky Mountaineers

Uncle Henry's Original Kentucky Mountaineers actually did come from Kentucky, unlike some old-timey music combos that simply pretended to be: Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers, for example, was actually a Fresno band. While a legitimate locale thus lurks in the combo name chosen by founder Uncle Henry Warren, the mountain music emphasis thereby implied stands in contrast to an actually much broader stylistic range. Warren started the band in the '20s, but recording activity wasn't particularly heavy until the '40s. By then, the string band sound even included some electric inst...