Alabama Ramblers: Writing Love Letters

“I found I couldn’t mail them, so I burned them instead / I’m writing love letters that will never be read.”

Recorded in Korea, circa 1952, by the Alabama Ramblers and subsequently broadcast over radio station WJMW in Athens, Alabama. Originally recorded on reel-to-reel tape, this excerpt was later re-recorded to an acetate disc, now housed at the Alabama Veterans Museum and Archives in Athens. This and other recordings by the Alabama Ramblers are presented here with thanks to Dale Casteel, Stephanie Hunter-Cook, and the Alabama Veterans Museum and Archives.