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James Faye "Roy" Hall was born on May 7, 1922, in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. An old colored man taught him to play piano, and to drink. By the time Roy turned twenty-one, he knew that he was the best drunken piano-player in Big Stone Gap, and armed with the pride and confidence that this knowledge gave him, he departed the town of his birth to seek fame. Roy made it to Bristol and farther, pumping boogie-woogie in every Virginia, Tennessee, or Alabama beer-joint that had a piano. He played those pianos fast and hard and sinful, like that colored man who had taught him back in Big Stone Gap; but he sang like the hillbilly that he was. He organized his own band, Roy Hall and His Cohutta Mountain Boys (Cohutta was part of the Appalachians, in the shadows of whose foothills he had been raised up). It was a five-piece band, with Tommy Odum on lead guitar, Bud White on rhythm guitar, Flash Griner on bass, and Frankie Brumbalough on fiddle. Roy pounded the piano and did most of the singing; but everybody else in the band sang too.
In 1949 Roy and the band cut their first records, for Fortune, a small, independent label located on 12th Street in Detroit. Over the next year Fortune released six sides by Roy Hall: "Dirty Boogie," "Okee Doaks," "Never Marry a Tennessee Girl," "We Never Get Too Big to Cry," "Five Years in Prison," and "My Freckle Face Gal." Most of these recordings were slick hillbilly blues, similar to the sort of music with which Hank Williams had recently risen to fame. But the most successful of the bunch, "Dirty Boogie" was a wild, nasty rocker which foreshadowed much of what was to come to be musically in the South during the next few years.
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   1. Roy Hall - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On                 [02:58]
   2. Roy Hall - Diggin' The Boogie                           [02:36]
   3. Roy Hall - Off-Beat Boogie                              [02:33]
   4. Roy Hall - Move On                                      [02:22]
   5. Roy Hall - Three Alley Cats (1956)                      [02:28]
   6. Roy Hall - See You Later Alligator                      [02:31]
   7. Roy Hall - Christine (1984)                             [02:52]
   8. Roy Hall - Blue Suede Shoes                             [02:10]
   9. Roy Hall - All By Myself                                [02:47]
  10. Roy Hall - Don't Stop Now                               [02:37]
  11. Roy Hall - You Ruined My Blue Suede Shoes               [02:36]
  12. Roy Hall - Dirty Boogie                                 [02:51]
  13. Roy Hall - She Sure Can Rock Me                         [02:32]
  14. Roy Hall - Three Alley Cats (1958)                      [02:28]
  15. Roy Hall - Bed Spring Motel (23 Spring Street)          [03:14]
  16. Roy Hall - Dig Everybody Dig That Boogie                [02:21]
  17. Roy Hall - Go Go Little Queenie                         [02:19]
  18. Roy Hall - One Monkey Can't Stop The Show               [03:02]
  19. Roy Hall - Flood Of Love                                [02:19]
  20. Roy Hall - My Girl And His Girl (2005)                  [02:45]
  21. Roy Hall - Lost My Baby                                 [02:24]
  22. Roy Hall - Sweet Love On My Mind                        [02:10]
  23. Roy Hall - Christine (2005)                             [02:24]
  24. Roy Hall - Diggin' The Boogie (alt.)                    [02:51]
  25. Roy Hall - Mule Boogie                                  [02:57]
  26. Roy Hall - Luscious                                     [02:40]
  27. Roy Hall - My Girl And His Girl (1984)                  [02:41]
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