Dollar Country (he/him)

23 Dec 2025

To contact Dollar Country Email host@dollarcountry.org Or visit the website at dollarcountry.org

The look grandpa gives you right before he absolutely rips some hot tunes on his dulcimer.

A sales history of Psycho by Eddie Noack Compiled by Dollar Country for the zine The Story Of Psycho: The Most Well Known Rare Country Single I put this together from Discogs, ebay, and private sales that I could find. You can buy the zine here: dollarcountry.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

Big news everyone!

Today I bought about 10 boxes of magazines and research material from the collection of the Hillbilly Researcher. I'm really excited to add all of this to the archive and to make as much of it available as I can.

Today a soulseek user got upset with me because I grabbed an album from him and he felt that I wasn't sharing enough music. Classic ALL CAPS angry messages from an anonymous person online, it brings me back the early days of file sharing. Little does he know my whole life is sharing music for free.

It really goes to show how perspective changes things. This person saw that I downloaded an obscure metal record and assumed a lot about me and what I do. Called me all sorts of names and didn't believe me when I said I didn't know why he was upset. But really we know nothing about each other.

10 years ago I posted this episode to mixcloud: dollarcountry.org/items/show/2... Happy anniversary to Dollar Country.

nts.liveDollar CountryLocal, regional, and unknown country singles shared from the dusty bins of America. https://dollarcountry.org/

Out of all the places my radio show has been hosted NTS is the only one that has paid me, and they pay fairly well considering. They're probably the one place that could get away with paying by exposure because of their huge reach, but they actually pay over 500 hosts! www.nts.live/shows/dollar...

Sometimes when I'm having a crummy week I read about how the Cleveland Browns gave the biggest NFL contract in history to a guy with dozens of sexual assault cases, who then got multiple season ending injuries, and I think well at least I didn't do something that dumb.

If Dock Boggs were around today would people like him they way they do now? A thread

When a recording is made a document is set into time and the quality of the recording equipment is forever merged to the quality of the performance. The history of recording has changed the history in music. Instruments were or left behind based on how they picked up on early microphones.

So without the recording quality of the early 1900s would Boggs' voice sound so high and lonesome? He may have just been another singer you heard when you passed by them on a street busking or playing the matinee at a local bar.

If Dock Boggs were around today would people like him they way they do now? A thread

I've been listening to a cd compilation of Boggs and one of the things I think about quite often is that it is often not the MUSIC we are attracted to but the SOUND of the music. If Boggs had been recorded with modern sound equipment would his recordings have the charm they do today?

18 Sept

I asked r/cleveland for info about an obscure band I have. Someone responded with an AI write up about the band. The write up is sourced my research on my website. old.reddit.com/r/Cleveland/...

18 Sept

As someone who spends many hours researching, I find this incredibly frustrating and a waste of time and resources. Please consider other people's time and try not to waste it.

youtube.comWVA 2026 - International AutoharpYouTube video by Walnut Valley Festival

17 Sept

Just jamming to some live autoharp from the winfield festival. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9laY... #walnutvalley2026 #winfield2026

16 Sept

We are currently looking for someone in the Cleveland area to help out with the in person archives. Check out dollarcountry.org/volunteer to apply

14 Sept

I'll be selling stuff here! Records, gear, books etc

XCSB Cleveland@xcsbcleveland.bsky.social

XCSB’s first-ever FLEA MARKET is coming to Beachland Ballroom and Tavern on Sat. 9/26, 10am–3pm! 50+ vendors • records • vintage • baked goods • XCSB DJs spinning vinyl all day $10 suggested donation supports XCSB Studios + community-powered radio in Cleveland.

gnarlydavidsonlfk.bandcamp.comGnarly Davidson II, by Gnarly Davidson8 track album

13 Sept

Before Dollar Country I toured in a loud stoner metal band. We recorded an album that we never released. Unfortunately one of our members passed away and today would have been his birthday, so here's the album in all it's glory. gnarlydavidsonlfk.bandcamp.com/album/gnarly...

13 Sept

ps. We had the name before that other guy.

patreon.comMap Update (Now with Australia!) | Dollar CountryHowdy Patrons, (( Link To Interactive Map: https://dollarcountry.org/map )) (( Please Share! )) Big ol' thanks to all you paying patrons who

12 Sept

New Location Map Update! (Now with Australia) 1074 Locations, 58 States, 13 Provinces, 4 Countries. Become a paying patron to support this work. Without supporters you couldn't browse this map because it simply wouldn't exist. www.patreon.com/dollarcountr...

dollarcountry.orgBrowse Items · Dollar CountryDollar Country is a radio show hosted by Frank the Drifter. It primarily features country 45's that I find in dollar bins around the country. Featuring everything from old hits to b-sides, common reco...

10 Sept

This week I've been updating the Australian Music department of Dollar Country. You can view all the records and artists and locations I have at this link. Much more to come. dollarcountry.org/items/browse...

youtube.comKulas Coalition - Stoney End (Agency Recording Studios Acetate)YouTube video by Dollar Country

I've put a song up on youtube to spread the word easier: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_ge...

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I was just contacted by the son of a member of a band that I have 1 acetate by. According to him it is the only extant recording of that band. This is why what Dollar Country is doing is important. What if I hadn't bought this acetate at a yard sale? dollarcountry.org/items/show/2...

dollarcountry.orgKulas Coalition - Agency Recording Studios Acetate · Dollar CountryDollar Country is a radio show hosted by Frank the Drifter. It primarily features country 45's that I find in dollar bins around the country. Featuring everything from old hits to b-sides, common reco...

It sucks when you have something important to post to instagram because you don't know if it's gonna do the thing where it just doesn't show anyone your post and the information doesn't get seen by more than 100 of your followers.

Come see me this month! 9/18: Country Night At Little Rose 9/25: Oxbow Orchards 10th Harvest Party 9/26: XCSB Flea Market

letterboxd.comSlim & I (2020)Documentary portrait of Joy McKean, Australia’s Queen of country music. Follows her performance and songwriting career, decades of touring around Australia, and her marriage of more than 50 years to f...

3 Sept

I'm watching Slim & I for the umpteenth time and every time it brings a tear to my eye. In my opinion it's one of the best country music documentaries ever made, and it's about someone most Americans don't even know exists. letterboxd.com/film/slim-i/

27 Aug

I feel like I really started to notice AI's affect on the internet when I looked at a video on youtube and noticed that all the comments were positive. That just doesn't seem natural anymore.

27 Aug

Even though the vile attacks on people in the comments always made me feel bad about the world, the weird slightly neutral niceness just don't feel real.

25 Aug

I'm really proud of this photo. It's really tricky getting a good picture of the etching in the runouts of a record and I got this one really nicely today. ꟻMR is the etching of an unidentified mastering engineer.

dollarcountry.orgSmokey Aaron - Red-Eye Whiskey / Summer Stroll · Dollar CountryDollar Country is a radio show hosted by Frank the Drifter. It primarily features country 45's that I find in dollar bins around the country. Featuring everything from old hits to b-sides, common reco...

25 Aug

Adding a ton of music to the DB today. Here's an upbeat tune about red eye whiskey killing you. dollarcountry.org/items/show/1...

23 Aug

I just heard from a granddaughter that she found her grandparent's album from stumbling on it in a facebook group for making fun of bad album covers and she told me the comments broke her heart. I try to keep this in mind whenever I stumble on music I don't care for. Each album is someone's dream.

dollarcountry.orgLocation Map · Dollar CountryDollar Country is a radio show hosted by Frank the Drifter. It primarily features country 45's that I find in dollar bins around the country. Featuring everything from old hits to b-sides, common reco...

20 Aug

Click on a city and see what country records the Dollar Country Archive has from there! New updated map as of right now with 4674 records and 1365 labels listed. dollarcountry.org/map

19 Aug

I love that Gaylord Archival's example of a VHS that needs a $27 archival storage box is Monty Python's Search For The Holy Grail

digi.countrymusichalloffame.orgLeon Payne - Demo Recordings - Tape from Biff CollieThis recording contains several self-recorded acoustic demo performances by Leon Payne. This tape is from the Biff Collie collection.

Here's a mini timeline of psycho versions for you. The first known recording of it is a Leon Payne demo on reel, presumably from 1968. digi.countrymusichalloffame.org/digital/coll...

youtube.comBilly Strings ‘’Psycho’’ 11/4/22 Dow Event Center - Saginaw, MichiganYouTube video by Ohio Grown Live Music Archive

A lot of artists have done the song live. Including Deke Dickerson but I can't find a version of it online. But famously Billy Strings has done it a few times, here's one from just a couple years ago in 2022 www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lL...

attend.cuyahogalibrary.orgDollar Country Presents: The Story of "Psycho" (Virtual)Join Frank the Drifter from Cleveland's <i>Dollar Country</i> as we dig up the history on Eddie Noack's 1968 cult favorite "Psycho.". Event starts at August 18, 2026 5:45 PM EDT

And if you want to know more you can see my talk tonight! attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/16017536

Here's a mini timeline of psycho versions for you. The first known recording of it is a Leon Payne demo on reel, presumably from 1968. digi.countrymusichalloffame.org/digital/coll...

youtube.comFreud Marx Engels & Jung - KipeeYouTube video by MrRepeS

1992 Freud Marx Engels & Jung Maybe the first foreign language version? www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9eO...

youtube.comAndre Williams & The Sadies - Psycho (Horror Blues, Eddie Noack Cover)YouTube video by CoverVerse

1999 Andre Williams & The Sadies www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW4t...

Here's a mini timeline of psycho versions for you. The first known recording of it is a Leon Payne demo on reel, presumably from 1968. digi.countrymusichalloffame.org/digital/coll...

I consider all of the above versions to be important on the timeline of Psycho. After this a lot more bands start to cover it, and qualitatively I'm not saying anything about them being lesser, just that the ones above are a part of the story of the song to me. So here's some more:

youtube.comTrashmuseum PsychoYouTube video by pete keeley

1986 Trashmuseum www.youtube.com/watch?v=pICz...

Here's a mini timeline of psycho versions for you. The first known recording of it is a Leon Payne demo on reel, presumably from 1968. digi.countrymusichalloffame.org/digital/coll...

youtube.comBeasts Of Bourbon - Psycho (1984)YouTube video by nzoz1984

In 1984 both @ttexed.bsky.social and the Beasts Of Bourbon record versions. BoB would release theirs on their first album that year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq0g...

youtube.comPsycho '84YouTube video by T. Tex Edwards - Topic

T Tex's version wasn't released until 1989. This is also where we split between Noack's and Kittell's versions. The above versions were all from Kittell's, this one is from the Noack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlbn...

Here's a mini timeline of psycho versions for you. The first known recording of it is a Leon Payne demo on reel, presumably from 1968. digi.countrymusichalloffame.org/digital/coll...

youtube.comElvis Costello And The Attractions - Psycho (Leon Payne, Eddie Noack Cover)YouTube video by CoverVerse

Elvis Costello performed it live in 1979 and released a live version in 1981. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vln...

youtube.comElvis Costello & The Attractions - 'Psycho'YouTube video by Elvis Costello

Later Costello recorded it for his country album Almost Blue but didn't release it until the deluxe CD version in 1994 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGCF...

Here's a mini timeline of psycho versions for you. The first known recording of it is a Leon Payne demo on reel, presumably from 1968. digi.countrymusichalloffame.org/digital/coll...

youtube.comPsychoYouTube video by Eddie Noack - Topic

The second, and currently most famous version, is Eddie Noack's in 1968. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I_z...

youtube.comPsychoYouTube video by Jack Kittel - Topic

Third is Jack Kittell's version released on Belt Records in 1973. www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Lu...