The Old Guitar And Me - Jenks ' Tex ' Carmen
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Jenks 'Tex' Carman was a true American original. His unique style of hillbilly hula music would never have made a dent in Nashville, but on the West coast he was embraced. This 31 track CD contains the complete recordings that Carman did for Sage and Sand Records in the late 1950s. Rockabilly fans will be pleased to note that Carman is backed by the Town Hall Party television show musicians on this CD. Amazing rockabilly guitarists Joe Maphis and Roy Lanham contribute some amazingly hot rockabilly guitar solos to these recordings.

Jenkins "Tex" Carman (May 14, 1903 – February 2, 1968) was a country music singer and musician active from the 1910s to the 1960s known for playing the Hawaiian Guitar.

Born in Hardinsburg, Kentucky in 1903 and although Carman often claimed to be of Cherokee heritage there is no record of such listed with the Cherokee Nation of North Carolina where Carman's family are known to have originated. As a youth, Carman learned basic guitar as well as singing with a vocal quartet and was touring the local medicine show and vaudeville circuit. He recorded a single as a solo act in 1929 for Gennett Records which was not released

Carman continued on as a solo act and with a sister touring and performing on the radio into the 1930s in Louisville, Kentucky and St. Louis, Missouri. During this time he met Frank Plada, a Hawaiian Guitar player who had made popular recordings for Gennett in the 1920s who introduced Carman to the instrument.

Carman's musical abilities were rather limited, consisting of simple single-note runs repeated with little attention given to a steady rhythm or conventional time keeping. Carman's sloppiness was made worse by his heavy drinking and he often did not bother to tune his guitar. His singing voice was similarly ragged, having a nasal twang and limited range. In spite of his musical limitations Carman remained popular with audiences due to his distinctive sound, easy going charm and humor.

Carman continued to tour, now as a solo act, for the rest of the 1940s and made his way west to Pasadena, California by end of the decade where he appeared on the radio on the NBC show Town Hall Party, as well as making a few solo recordings for Four Star Records. Carman also performed on the new medium of television. Carman learned showmanship from his vaudeville days, dressing in flamboyant cowboy outfits and calling himself Tex, at other times wearing an Indian headdress. He became a popular performer on television, appearing on shows "Town Hall Party with Tex Ritter and Johnny Bond and "Hometown Jamboree with Cliffie Stone. Stone introduced Carman to Capitol Records scout Ken Nelson who signed him to a contract in 1951. Carman would make numerous recordings for Capitol with some success for the rest of the decade.

The material recorded for Capitol ranged from Carman's preferred Hawaiian themed songs like "Hillbilly Hula", "Hilo March", and "Samoa Stomp" to sentimental ballads (many written by Carman) as well as a modern covers chosen by Ken Nelson who produced the sessions; "I Could Love You Darling" (originally done by Hank Locklin and a version of "Dixie Cannonball" originally done by Gene Autry and Red Foley. Carman included a novelty song with a version of "When The Caissons Go Rolling Along" (ALA "The Army Goes Rolling Along") during which he imitated various sound effects on the fretboard. This was a particular audience favorite.



Disc: 1
 1. Hillbilly Hula
 2. Casey Jones
 3. Heartache And Tears
 4. They Had To Say Goodbye
 5. You'll Come A Crawlin' Back
 6. Krish A Boom Ba
 7. Walking & Crying For You
 8. My Broken Heart Won't Let Me Sleep
 9. Honk, Honk, Honk
 10. Silver Rails Leading Westward
 11. Old Guitar & Me
 12. Love Me Darlin'
 13. Spanish Dancer
 14. I Feel Like I Feel
 15. This Lonely Road
 16. Little May
 17. Ozark Rose
 18. To Win, To Place, To Show
 19. Fire In The Teepee
 20. Learning To Do Without You
 21. Little Black Jack Davey
 22. My Darling La Roue
 23. Valley Of The Sun
 24. Ho-Down 1000
 25. Maggie's Twist
 26. I'll Go On Lovin' You
 27. Aungalala
 28. Somewhere In This World
 29. Lobo Of The Border
 30. Indian Love Song
 31. Custer's Massacre