ALLEN BROTHERS

ALLEN BROTHERS (Austin [bnj, lead voc], February 7, 1901–January 5, 1959, and Lee [gtr, kazoo, voc], June 1, 1906–February 24, 1981; both b. Sewanee, Tenn.) The Allen Brothers were a jazzy duo who specialized in blues and hokum numbers. Their biggest hit was Salty Dog Blues, with its snappy hey-hey-heyhey chorus. The Allens were a strange anomaly in country music; they were born and raised in the small city of Sewanee, Tennessee, and they moved to Chattanooga home of the University of the…