Ripley Cotton Choppers

RIPLEY COTTON CHOPPERS - Were a white string band who played together on weekends in venues ranging from country suppers to each other's living rooms. Their style evokes memories of a bygone era and were it not for the presence of an electric guitar their record could have been cut by Ralph Peer thirty years earlier. The group borrowed their name from another Tennessee aggregation which had performed widely during the Depression years and, although they had never recorded, they had broadcast regularly over station WREC in Memphis.