Skip to content
What’s up Sorry State readers, I hope everyone has had a nice week. Today I’d like to talk about biscuits, and not just any biscuits. I’m talking about Mother’s Best biscuits. More specifically, I’m talking about the Mother’s Best Flour show. This is another addition to the long list of things that Dominic has introduced me to. The show was a weekly 15 minute radio broadcast airing at 7:15 AM from 1949 to 1951 in Nashville, Tennessee, which featured the music of Hank Williams and his band. Throughout the show, Hank and the host are pedalling Mother’s Best products, such as flour, self rising cornmeal, and livestock feed, but they’re doing it in such a charismatic way, you don’t even mind. One of the things I love about old country and bluegrass shows is the funny and informal banter in between songs. It just adds a whole other element to it, and this radio show has plenty of that. I also love the short jingle they sing about biscuits every show about three times. It’s been stuck in my head all week. The show usually consisted of about three songs performed by Hank and his band. One thing I really like about it is he would perform some of his bigger hits, but he would also play older country and bluegrass songs from his childhood that he normally wouldn’t play live. There was a CD set released featuring a large collection of the shows, but all of them have been uploaded to youtube, which is what I use to listen to them. I feel like I say this a lot, but listening to one of these shows and having a cup of coffee is a great way to start the day. Maybe you’ll even end up cooking up a mess of Mother’s Best biscuits.