![]() The first thing that the Coon Creek Girls cut is the latter. So Lair’s picked old-time love and murder ballads, hillbilly comedy numbers, uptempo pieces, songs soaked in religion but not quite gospel. The record business is still getting back on its feet after being leveled by the Depression, and Vocalion wants variety in the titles. John Lair, their manager, has chosen the selections. ![]() None of them are more than twenty-two years old. They are the first all-woman country string band in the United States, or at least they’re the first who recorded. And on bass fiddle, Evelyn “Daisy” Lange, a showbiz kid who elbowed her way into the group, playing an instrument that she’d never touched until half a year ago. On mandolin, Esther Koehler, stage name “ Violet,” the dreamiest and most shadowy of the quartet. ![]() Rosie Ledford, jovial where her younger sister is reserved, sings and plays guitar. Lily May Ledford, a radio pro but still uneasy at the microphone, looks sharply around the studio. The Coon Creek Girls, from Pinch-Em Tight Holler in the Red River Gorge of eastern Kentucky (a fib-only two are the others are Yankees). There are four of them here this morning in Chicago, eight AM on the second-to-last day of May, 1938.
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