Before Jethro Burns turned to teaching, he first thought Homer & Jethro might continue if he had a new partner.
Curt Delaney was the obvious choice. Delaney, a fellow Southerner who grew up in Moultrie, Georgia, had been playing country guitar in Chicago since he was hired as a staff musician for “Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club” in 1952. One night at the Old Town School of Folk Music, Burns asked if he’d consider the job, but Delaney turned him down. He already had a band.
