Curtis Hitch led this band from 1922 to 1927 in Indiana. While playing at Indiana University in Bloomington they met Hoagy Carmichael and recorded his songs "Bone Yard Shuffle" and "Washboard Blues" which were Hoagy's first recordings. Carmichael joins them on piano. The band was very much influenced by Hoagy's friends Bix Beiderbecke and the Wolverines who were playing a lot in Indiana at that time. If you listen to the piano solo in "Wash Board Blues" you recognize it has the theme from Carmichael's later song "Lazybones".