This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WZVBAIB/3017.2.1 Message Board Post: Dear Joel -- Hello & thanks for your reply. I don't know a lot about this Oliver Warren or the Rambling Rangers, but I'll fill you in on what I do know. The group was managed by a man named Samuel Stalsby, who was living in Port Arthur, Texas at the time of the band's recordings, December 1938. THe band may also have been based there, but they might also have been from southern Louisiana, where Stalsby's roots were (Alexandria area) & they seem to have had some association with the famed singer & politician, Jimmie Davis, who was based in Shreveport at the time. The Rangers were a trio, two guitars and a steel guitar. The steel guitarist's first name was "Harold" & Oliver Warren was (apparently) one of the other musicians, presumably a guitarist & vocalist; Oliver Warren wrote several of the songs the band recorded, including one that I have in my collection, "Tired Of Ramblin'". It's possible that the 3rd member of the Rambling Rangers was Samuel Stalsby's son, Sammy, who w! as only 16 at the time, but who played guitar and sang. The band seems to ahve disbanded by 1940, by which time Samuel Stalsby was managing a trio composed of his children, who were all still teenagers. I don't have any other information - the Rambling Rangers recorded in Dallas in December 1938 for the Vocalion label, a subsidary of Columbia Records. The contract appears to have been set up by Jimmie Davis. That's all I know, other than the music inthe grooves...Does any of this fit with what you know of your grandfather -- I'd be fascianted to hear back form you about this -- take care -- Kevin Coffey