Homer & Jethro, America's Song Butchers: The Weird World Of Homer & Jethro - 48m 54s

Tracks & Durations

1. Tennesee Border No. 2	2:37
2. Baby, It's Cold Outside	2:57
3. Tennessee, Tennessee	2:46
4. I'm Movin' On No. 2	2:43
5. Li'l Ole Kiss of Fire	2:05
6. The Billboard Song	2:18
7. Jam-Bowl-Liar	2:40
8. You Belong to Me No. 2	2:15
9. Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyeballs	2:22
10. (How Much) Is That Hound Dog in the Window?	2:46
11. She Was Bitten on the Udder by an Adder	2:28
12. Hernando's Hideaway	2:33
13. Let Me Go, Blubber	2:24
14. Mister Sandman	2:03
15. Yaller Rose of Texas, You All	2:03
16. Sixteen Tons	2:13
17. Hart-Brake Motel	2:15
18. The Battle of Kookamonga	2:39
19. I Want to Hold Your Hand	2:31
20. Misty	2:02

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Review

Now this is a vital reissue project. From the '40s to the '60s, guitarist Henry "Homer" Haynes and mandolinist Kenneth "Jethro" Burns often put their virtuosity and swing (not to mention those of Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, and the great Nashville drummer Buddy Harman) into service as deconstructive tools applied to the hits of the day. You might say the duo's parodies struck blows against the straight-faced tyranny of both mainstream pop and "hillbilly" music; you'll also note that Homer and Jethro seem to be having too much fun to care about such high-flown notions. Still, listen to "Hart-Brake Motel" and hear how Elvis's RCA labelmates do more than, say, John Cale, to dissolve any saccharine looming in the original. "Turpentine" becomes an all-purpose rhyme (in separate songs, a girlfriend and a dog fall into barrels of it); eating crackers in bed is declared "a crummy habit"; and, in a move presaging Andy Kaufman's postmodern self-mockery, Haynes and Burns recommend that copies of their own "Billboard Song" be destroyed. The team even managed a final affront to good taste years after Haynes's death, when their anarchic treatment of "Misty" (included here) provided the template for Ray Stevens's follow-up to "The Streak." Oh, and "you know what a basketball nose is," don't you? "It dribbles all over the place." --Rickey Wright

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