Real name: James Rankin Pate

Two weeks before the Great Stock Market Crash in October of 1929 (aka "Black Tuesday") My Grandad, )Tom Pate, and his Dad, James Rankin Pate, boarded a Dallas Bound train, leaving Nacogdoches behind them for a couple of days, in response to Captain James Bonner's invitation and exciting opportunity to record their own songs...to make a record with RCA VICTOR RECORDS. Recorded in Dallas,Tx in October, 1929,The songs "TEXAS FAREWELL" and "PRISONER BOY" were original works featuring one of the best Fiddle players of the time, if not all time...My Great Grandfather, Fiddlin' Jim Pate. He was accompanied on the two tracks by his son, Tom Pate (my grandad) who played acoustic-rhythm guitar. Now, almost 90 years later, the two songs appear on at Least 6 Compilation Albums featuring Texas OldTime Country And American Fiddle Music, including the Pate titled "TEXAS FAREWELL" and "PRISONER BOY" which begin and end the album respectively. All of Fiddlin' Jim Pate's albums are still available on Vinyl, CD, and are also available digitally on Amazon, Google Music, YouTube, and of course, ITunes. Take a minute to listen sometime...you will be convinced that there are at LEAST two, or maybe three fiddles playing together...but it's just a father and his son taking their guitar pickin', fiddle sawin', foot stompin' creation from their front porch in East Texas, to the studio...and back....and remember, this was LONG before multi-track recording had been invented. Enjoy

April 10, 2017

Thomas James (Jim) Pate, III