'Like the fake beard he wore in the cover photo [of the CD], the country-sounding name "Silas" was attached to E.E. Akins when he played on radio and made public appearances in bands with names like the "Plow Pushers" and "Silas Akins' Radio Favorites." In 1928 Akins traveled to Atlanta to record two songs, naughty for the times, with banjoist Johnny Molotow and guitarist Red Phillips as AKINS' BIRMINGHAM BOYS. The three are shown in the cover photo with radio announcer Dud Connolly and Louis Marston, who was "Uncle Bud" of the Boll Weevils, a band often included Y.Z. Hamilton.'-- Notes by Joyce Cauthen to V.A., Alabama String Bands 1924 - 1937 (Document DOCD-8032) The other song is "I Walked and Walked," which is also at Honkingduck.

~Masato