Arkie Shibley and his Mountain Dew Boys

The opening verse in “Hot Rod Lincoln” makes it sound as though there was even more to the story:  “Have you heard this story of the Hot Rod Race / When Fords and Lincolns was settin’ the pace / That story is true, I’m here to say / I was drivin’ that Model A.”  And actually there was – “Hot Rod Lincoln” is an answer to a song dating from the year of my birth:  “Hot Rod Race”, a Western swing hit song from 1951 by Arkie Shibley and his Mountain Dew Boys. 

(December 2014)