Red Mountain Yellowhammers

Catch the Yellowhammers before they play for the old-time dance on Friday September 14 – we don’t have an actual dance floor, but you’ll definitely be tapping your toes & maybe even swinging your partner between the tables.

The Red Mountain Yellowhammers play good-time old-time string band music. At festivals and clubs you’ll hear them play high-energy dance tunes and old-timey blues, and sing songs from the earliest days of country music, when folks like the Carter Family and the Delmore Brothers were the stars.

As a dance band they dip into their large repertoire of powerful contra dance medleys and driving square dance tunes. They learned many of their tunes from older fiddlers in Alabama and Tennessee, and they play in a style that reflects the region in which they live.

Folks often describe the Yellowhammers as a wall of sound. Components of this sound are fiddle by Jim Cauthen, guitar by Joyce Cauthen, mandolin by Phil Foster, harmonica and banjo uke by Jamie Finley, and bass by Nancy Jackson.