Effective period / Period of releases: 1930

Nothing is known about the Bently Boys except that they were from North Carolina. They recorded "Down on Penny’s Farm" in 1929 for Columbia Records. It featured banjo and guitar and the flip side track “Henhouse Blues” also featured a fiddle player. Apparently they didn’t record anything else. Harry Smith said that “Down on Penny’s Farm” was “a regionalized recasting of an earlier song called “Hard Times”.