A string band from in and around Mineola, Texas, the East Texas Serenaders are a fine example of how country music worked before Nashville and radio and even recordings mattered much. They played mostly rags and waltzes and two steps, dance music for moving in a circle, a counter-clockwise circle around a floor where the rugs had been lifted up and a lot of loose pine sawdust spread all around. This wasn’t Western Swing; it’s what Western Swing was before Western Swing was.

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