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Randall Franks – Early Bluegrass Recordings

Early Bluegrass Recordings Randall Franks and the Peachtree Pickers $14 plus $2 S&H Crimson Records -1926 (2010) with Greg Earnest, Keith Morris, Mark Nelson and Greg Rogers Hamilton County Breakdown, Hard Hearted, Ivory Halls, Little Liza Jane, Maiden’s Prayer, Florida Blues, Rainbow at Midnight, Road To Columbus, Dear Old Dixie, Sweet Blue Eyed Darling Back […]

Snake Oil, Superstars and Me by “Doc” Tommy Scott, Randall Franks and Shirley Noe Sweisz

Snake Oil, Superstars and Me  $35 “Doc” Tommy Scott, Shirley Noe Sweisz and Randall Franks A 700- page autobiography with more than 500 photos highlighting Ramblin’ “Doc” Tommy Scott’s 90 years in Film, Television, Stage and Radio and all the superstars that were part of his life, show and career. We will pay postage and […]

Stirring Up Additional Success with a Southern Flavor by Randall Franks and Shirley Smith

Stirring Up Additional Success with a Southern Flavor by Randall Franks and Shirley Smith $18 plus $5 S & H The Catoosa Citizens for Literacy revamps its popular cookbook Stirring Up Additional Success with a Southern Flavor offering a variety of choices from celebrities and Catoosa County residents. Entertainer, actor, author and syndicated columnist Randall […]

Stirring Up Success with a Southern Flavor by Randall Franks and Shirley Smith

Stirring Up Success with a Southern Flavor by Randall Franks and Shirley Smith $18 plus $5 S&H The Catoosa Citizens for Literacy releases its popular cookbook Stirring Up Success with a Southern Flavor offering a variety of choices from celebrities and Catoosa County residents. Entertainer, actor, author and syndicated columnist Randall Franks, “Officer Randy Goode” […]

Remembering the legendary Ralph Stanley

When I started as a disc jockey in radio at WRFG in Atlanta, Ga., the influence of musical preferences of the hosts T.P.  and Sandra Hollomon of the Bluegrass Festival impacted me with every drop of needle. I had known the music of the Stanley Brothers since I began listening to mountain music and as […]

If dust collects, find a broom

I covered the cloth in furniture polish and pushed it across the top of the wardrobe removing each object perched there and giving it a good going over. When I was a boy, I always wondered what was on top of the wardrobe because I couldn’t see it. Now I wish I didn’t. Dust seems […]