J. E. Mainer’s Mountaineers
Recording Artist
Old-Time (Traditional)
Fiddler J.E. Mainer (1898–1971) led Mainer’s Mountaineers, the North Carolina band whose mid-1930s Bluebird records sit squarely between old-time string band music and bluegrass.
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- “Maple on the Hill” (1935) was among the best-selling country records of its day; with his brother Wade on banjo the band put dozens of songs into the bluegrass repertoire.
