As time progressed, their stints at the stations became shorter and shorter due to their excessive drinking. The Delmore Brothers' close harmonizing is filled with poignancy and sadness, and many of their best songs from the 1933 to 1940 era, which are included on this disc, are about unrequited love, rambling, restlessness, escaping hard times, and yearning for good times gone by. Many tracks carry a bluesy feel. Instrumentation is simply two guitars, with Rabon frequently picking a mean lead, and a fiddler joins in a few times. This is a penetrating, moving, well-chosen set from one of America's leading duos of any genre.
Sound restoration is good and informative notes accompany both highly recommended discs.
Macon and the Delmores deserve no less. By himself, overdubbing ethnic percussion and vocals, Hakmoun has recreated traditional Moroccan Gnawan music that is perfectly and purely alive today. For Hakmoun , whose album on RealWorld was an insane joy , has tapped the root. His playing on the sintir, a bass lute, is Willie Dixon and every good jazz bassist you ever heard. The syncopated rhythms are the blues, ragtime and cool bop.