The Leake County Revelers’ Birds in the Brook is unusual in two significant ways: It has an unusually long and complex form It has a short minor-key segment (at rehearsal mark ‘C’), played in unison The tonal relationships between the strains, starting in C major, and moving up to the subdominant F, is typical of marches,…
Ridin’ in an Old Model T
Ridin’ in an Old Model T is one of six sides recorded by the Dixie Ramblers at a March, 1937 session in Birmingham, Alabama. Russell’s Country Music Records actually lists four unrelated groups that recorded under the name The Dixie Ramblers. Unusually for 1930s string bands, this group appears to have been racially integrated. Ridin’…