The Radio Gang

Hall of Famer Mac McHale and his Radio Gang will be featured on the home page of the MaineCountryMusic.com website in March.
The presentation of vintage American country music from the 1930s and 1940s is the mission of The Radio Gang. Its veteran musicians play and sing rousing renditions of classic melodies that recapture the mood of a unique period in American history when the popular music told "the stories from our hearts." Simple, honest and in many ways innocent, country music of the ‘30s and ‘40s (more often classed as bluegrass today) was purely acoustic, with six-string guitar, mandolin, banjo and stand-up bass. Country music had its start, in many cases, as live broadcasts over the radio or was performed in grange halls and churches. The band’s selections are richly varied--spirited fiddle and train songs, gospel music, hand-clapping and toe-tapping tunes, and ballads of love and heartbreak. The Radio Gang has eleven recordings to its credit. Among them are Old Country Radio Songs (which was chosen by CD Review as one of the top four country CDs since the magazine began in 1984), When the Roses Bloom Again, and New River Train (submitted by Folkways Records for a 1993 Grammy Award). The group recently recorded four albums for Fishtraks: Get on Board, Sunbonnet Mother, River of Memories and Down in Memory Lane.
Excerpt derived from their website