Bear Family
1989
Homer & Jethro Assault The Rock 'n Roll Era
About This Album
The premier hillbilly parody act get the Bear Family Records red carpet treatment with this CD reissue of the label's 1989 vinyl compilation. Now expanded to a whopping 26 tracks and including a tome of a booklet that features a fulsome biography, track recording details, and song lyrics, Assault the Rock & Roll Era is the ultimate compilation. The duo of Henry "Homer" Haynes and Kenneth "Jethro" Burns began playing together back in 1936, but the opportunity to record their own music didn't come for a decade, when they eventually inked a deal with the King label. Old friend Chet Atkins brought the duo with him to RCA Victor, to which the pair, after freeing themselves from King, signed in 1949. Atkins would play on many of the pair's early recordings, going on to produce them later in the '50s. Their early material perfectly lampooned both country and pop numbers, but with the rise of rock & roll, Homer & Jethro quickly expanded their repertoire, to devastating effect. Sly, wry, and always witty, the pair's lyrics were invariably laugh-out-loud funny, whether turning Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" into a flea-ridden roach motel, taking a girl in an "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" and dressing her in red flannels, or felling General Custer under a barrage of "Little Arrows.
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