A full year before the alleged beginning of country music recording, Alexander Campbell Robertson (1887-1975) of Amarillo, Texas, showed up at the Victor studios in New York, announcing that he had come to make records. A company representative, intending to brush him off, agreed to listen to a brief sample of his playing. Astounded at what he heard, he invited Eck back the next day, when this classic of the Texas contest fiddling style was recorded,
A.C. (Eck) Robertson, fiddle,
New York, NY 7/1/22 Victor 18986
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