Jimmy McCarroll, fiddle
Roane County, Tennessee, in the hills just west of Knoxville,was the home of this seldom-recorded band, The tune, a variant of what G.B. Grayson called "Going Down The Lee Highway", is supposed to have been one of the "Indian pieces" McCarroll learned from his mother’s Cherokee relatives.
The Roane County Ramblers: Jimmy McCarroll, fiddle; John Kelly, mandolin; Howard Wyatt, banjo; Luke Brandon, guitar.
Johnson City, TN 10/15/28 Columbia 15328-D
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