Laugh Your Blues Away is a studio or archival album from Uncle Dave Macon and Sam McGee, two of the Grand Ole Opry's founding generation of performers whose work together on the Opry stage and in recording sessions documented the transition from nineteenth-century vaudeville and minstrel performance traditions into the commercial country music era. Macon plays banjo and sings; McGee plays guitar and sings. Macon — whose banjoist-comedian performing style drew from minstrel, vaudeville, and old-time rural tradition in equal measure — and McGee, the Smyrna, Tennessee guitarist whose finger-picked guitar work was among the most technically advanced in the early commercial country period, document the performing relationship they built through years of shared Opry appearances and radio work from the station's founding in 1927 through Macon's death in 1952.