Salty Holmes - Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain (1949).

PIC SHOWS Jean Chapel aka Mattie O’Neil and Salty Holmes [Written by Fred Rose]. 1st. Recorded 1945 by Roy Acuff [unissued] 1st. Commercial Recording 21 May 1946 by Elton Britt [released February 1947] Recorded 28 January 1947 by Roy Acuff [released August 1947] Issued on Decca 46152 A as Salty Holmes and his Brown County Boys. Recorded 21 January 1949 Castle Studio at the Tulane Hotel 206 8th., Ave. North, Nashville, TN - Salty Holmes (vcl solo/harmonica), Tex Atchison (fiddle), Joe Maphis (gt). Born Floyd Holmes in Glasgow, KY (1909 - 1970) Recorded 1935 to 1940 with the Praire Ramblers/Sweet Violet Boys Regular on the Grand Ole Opry with Jean Chapel as Mattie and Salty