Go also to the Western Swing blog to get more of him!ДЄlton and Rabon Delmore, shortly called the Delmore Brothers, were of those duos who had success in the 1930s with their close harmony singing, but later developed their own style with hillbilly boogie songs, most famous their 'Blues Stay Away From Me', which was covered in 1956 by the Johnny Burnette Trio. In the sixties, he found a new audience in the young folk community. After 1939, he gave up recording but performed well into the 1950s. He was always accompained by his band, the Wildcats, which included Hoyt 'Slim' Bryant and also brother-in-law Bert Layne. He also appeared on the famed National Barn Dance and later on the Boone County Jamboree.

The 1930s saw McMichen recording for Decca and Crown his more jazz-influenced style and touring the country. McMichen penned together with Rodgers the song 'Peach Pickin' In Georgia' before McMichen joined Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers, with whom he played until 1931. Around that time, he got to know Jimmie Rodgers and soon they became friends. By then, he performed on WSB in Atlanta, Georgia, regularly and cut his first sides in 1925 for OKeh. In 1919, he set up his own band called the 'Lick the Skillet Band', which was later re-named the Hometown Boys. He was born in 1900 in Georgia and first worked as an auto mechanic. He mixed up old mountain music and dixieland jazz creating a sound that was with no doubt early western swing. Clayton McMichen was a talented and excellent fiddler, first playing with Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers and later developing his own style with the Georgia Wildcats.

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