Painting: Poster, Alton Delmore's King Records Jamboree by Craig Legg, 2023. #292 in Craig Legg's Alabama Roots Music Trading Card Series. Courtesy Craig Legg.
Newspaper photo and caption, Decatur[AL]Daily, October 2, 1951.Caption text reads: "RAMBLERS PERFORM--Anytime the 1343d engineer combat battalion of the Alabama National Guard runs a little short on entertainment, the call goes out for a command…
Photo postcard featuring Shorty Ginn, the “One-Man, Ten-Piece Band,” Decatur, Alabama, c. 1960s.
A native of Belmont, Mississippi, Ginn performed in and out of Alabama and Mississippi from the 1940s into at least the 1960s. By 1949, he had…