HOOSIER HOT SHOTS

HOOSIER HOT SHOTS (founding members: Kenny Rudy Trietsch [tenor gtr, tuba]; Paul Hezzie Trietsch [washboard, slide whistle]; Charles Otto Gabe Ward [clarinet]; Frank Delaney Kettering [b]) The Hoosier Hot Shots , a novelty country act of the 1930s and 1940s, got their training portraying country RUBE characters and playing hepped-up country music in Ezra Buzzington 's touring vaudeville troupe, known as The Rube Band or Rustic Revellers . Four Trietsch brothers, along with Paul Trietsch's wife…