HOOD, ADELYNE
(1897–1958)
HOOD, ADELYNE (b. South Carolina, 1897–1958) Hood was a fiddler, pianist, and vocalist who originally recorded with VERNON DALHART and CARSON ROBISON and then made a series of tough-gal recordings. She specialized in semiclassical fiddling and dialect numbers, eventually originating the Aunt Jemima character on radio for Quaker Oats in the late 1930s. Hood was a classically trained musician from a genteel Southern family when she met popular recording artist Dalhart around 1917. Some ten years…