Prairie Ramblers

Band
Old-Time (Traditional) Western Swing

The Prairie Ramblers, formed in Kentucky in 1932 as the Kentucky Ramblers, became the house string band of Chicago’s WLS National Barn Dance and one of the most-recorded country acts of the 1930s.

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  • They backed Patsy Montana on “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” (1935), country music’s first million-seller by a woman.
  • Their 1934 “Shady Grove” is the first commercial recording of the song as widely sung today.

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