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Hoot Roberts – Stop The World And Let Me Off

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Database Link: https://dollarcountry.org/items/show/8712

I have no recollection of where I got this one although it was pre-pandemic. I love that it’s Hoot Roberts on Owl records, it’s nice to have a theme. Stop The World is a great tune, Dearer Than Life is alright but I’d play the top side 9/10 times. According to slipcue.com, Hoot Roberts was originally from Alabama but moved to Wausau Wisconsin and had his country career there. “Big Sound From The North Woods”

One thing of note is that side A is partially credited to W.S. Stevenson, the owner of 4 Star Records. Like many other slippery record men from way back then, he put his name on many songs that he had no hand in writing, but since he owned the music and was the man in charge he got to do all that kind of stuff without anyone coming after him.

Cheers
Franklin

DB Update: State of Origin Lists

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Back in 2021 I went through every record in the collection to make lists on discogs of what state they were from. Sometimes it’s the label, sometimes it’s the artist, and sometimes I couldn’t figure it out at all. Well those lists remained on discogs and I updated them whenever I put a new record into the collection over there. I’m working on a new project where I want to share records by State so I’m translating the discogs lists to my database. So far I’ve gotten Alabama through Illinois moved over, I’m working alphabetically.

Once I’m done I’m gonna have a page where you can browse by state to see records from each state. I’m pumped to get this information moved over.

Here’s a few if you wanna browse:
Alabama
Arkansas
California

Let me know if you want the state list and I can link you to it!

Cheers
Franklin

Welcome to the DC Blog

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Howdy Folks, Frank the Drifter here. Who starts a blog in 2025? I guess I do. I’ve spent the last 8 years hustling on instagram, facebook, and twitter to try and get people to listen to my show and sometimes it feels like those platforms make new rules to just to make it harder for people to see my posts. I’m happy that so many people heard about me from instagram, but the hustling stresses me out and a lot of folks dig what I’m doing no matter where it’s posted, so I thought it was time to slow down and do my own thing. I also didn’t like that you had to use any particular app to hear from me about what I’m doing, so here we are.

I plan on posting my “social media” style posts here to the blog as well as my newsletter so you can just check here for it. You can “follow” what I’m posting with RSS (if you don’t have an rss app they are easy to find and very simple) by putting this in your reader: https://blog.dollarcountry.org/feed/

In other words, this is where I’ll update you about anything related to DC. I know it will reach fewer people than instagram but I just don’t feel good about being on instagram anymore, as I like to own my own data.

Cheers
Franklin