by Sherre DeLys
A personal tribute to her beloved grandfather Archie Jeffries, a West Texas bandleader with his own radio show in the days before global media or country & western.
He tells of his world of music in a time when hillbilly songs and the stories they told came from that singular landscape, and from the great characters to be found there.
Archie was born in 1914, and his father was one of the last of the real cowboys. Born at the crossroads, small in the immensity of that landscape, he knows the value of a good story about the past. So within this story are lots of stories. Of recording angels like The Blue Yodeller and The Texas Playboys, of cowboys dancing with cowboys, of a petrified bird which sings a petrified song...of the boy who shot a hole in the moon.
And there's a story of ABC producer Sherre DeLys, Archie's granddaughter, here in a radio studio in Australia appreciating the beautiful music of faraway voices, and the myths by which we are formed.
This broadcast commemorates the passing of Archie Jefferies.
Sound engineer: Russell Stapleton
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