DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters

DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters

DaCosta Woltz, Price Goodman, Ben Jarrell, Frank Jenkins

DaCosta Woltz was involved in the patent medicine business and was mayor of Galax, Virginia in 1930 and 1931. He also fronted a band -- DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters --that recorded 18 sides (in various combinations of band personnel and band attribution) for Gennett Records in early May 1927. The band's ensemble instrumentation was unique: Woltz played a two-finger style banjo, Frank Jenkins a syncopated clawhammer banjo style, Ben Jarrell (father of Tommy Jarrell) on fiddle, and twelve year-old Price Goodson on harmonica and ukulele (on three sides).

The band never recorded again or performed on the radio as the name would imply, but Jenkins recorded again in 1929 with son, Oscar, and Ernest Stoneman as "Frank Jenkin's Pilot Mountaineers".