ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderRoane County Ramblers was a bluegrass\/Appalachian quartet, with roots in Roane County, who recorded for Columbia Records in 1928 and 1929. They were part of the important “Johnson City Sessions,” which produced records for a national audience. <\/p>\n
The Ramblers recorded 14 sides (7 records) in Johnson City and Atlanta. The County Sales label compiled the Ramblers’ recordings on a single vinyl album that is occasionally for sale on-line. Digital versions of their recordings are available on the Internet — just search!<\/p>\n
Jimmy McCarroll<\/strong> formed the group and played fiddle. The original members were Luther Claude “Luke” Brandon<\/strong> (guitar), John Kelley<\/strong> (mandolin) and William Howard Wyatt<\/strong> (banjo). The nationally renowned fiddler “Curly” Fox<\/strong> appeared on a few recordings. The Ramblers never struck out on the professional music pathway.<\/p>\n Born in 1892 in Emory Gap, Jimmy McCarroll<\/strong> was considered an extremely talented fiddler. Jim<\/strong>‘s son, Tom<\/strong>, recalled his father played fiddle up to three or four weeks before he died at age 94.<\/p>\n The Loudon County News-Herald<\/em> newspaper featured Tom McCarroll<\/strong> and his daughter, Tammie<\/strong>, in 2009. Click here to read the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n Click here to view<\/a> the Knoxville Old Time Music site that has photos and additional information about the Ramblers.<\/span><\/p>\n Fiddler Joseph DeCosimo<\/strong> wrote a fascinating stufy of the McCarroll<\/strong> family’s music for his 2012 UNC-Chapel Hill Master\u2019s thesis, entitled Unexpected Vibrations in Unexpected Places: Making New, Old Music in the McCarroll Family<\/em>, which is available for free download (click here<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Roane County Ramblers was a bluegrass\/Appalachian quartet, with roots in Roane County, who recorded for Columbia Records in 1928 and 1929. They were part of the important “Johnson City Sessions,” which produced records for a national audience. The Ramblers recorded …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,46,26,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists-artisans","category-biographies","category-local-history-information","category-professions-and-professionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}