Here’s a great old Mississippi fiddle tune for those lazy summer days in July. The Leake County Revelers were the best-known Mississippi band of their era, hailing from Sebastopol, MS, with Will Gilmer on fiddle, Dallas Jones on guitar and most lead vocals, R.O.Moseley on banjo-mandolin, and Jim Wolverton on banjo. They had a widely heard Saturday night radio show and cut 44 diverse instrumental and vocal sides for Columbia and Okeh Records between 1927 and 1930. Their biggest hit, “Wednesday Night Waltz,” was among early country music’s biggest sellers. The Revelers often played at a relaxed, easy-does-it pace which set them apart from hell-for-leather string bands such as The Skillet Lickers.

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