Arnold (fiddle) and Irving (guitar) Williamson were from Logan County, West Virginia, like two other Anthology artists Frank Hutchinson and close neighbour d*** Justice. They recorded a few sides in the twenties for Okeh with a banjo player named Curry (I'm pretty sure he didn't played a five-string on this records but something like a uke-banjo or tenor). Judging by the six sides we know, they were an old-timey dance act and it's too bad they didn't record more because they were on of the best ever recorded in this genre. Their version of "John Henry" is, in my opinion, one of the greatest version of the song too. One can feel a strong influence of black music on all this West-Virginian musicians, in a very obvious way with Hutchinson and Justice who sang many Blues songs but also with the wild square-dance music of The Williamson Brothers.