Fresh from his recording triumph of "Wreck of the Old 97", Vernon Dalhart was now a pioneering Country singer instead of the light opera and ballad singer he had been just a few years earlier. Guy Massey, the fellow who wrote Vernon's other major hit "Prisoner's
Song", also wrote this tune about a young man gone wrong. Vernon performed it for this early electric Brunswick side in June of 1925 with anonymous guitar backup (probably Carson Robison who accompanied him on many sides). The prototype electrical equipment used
here was still quite experimental when this side was recorded - the sound on this is not as distorted as some, but certainly more "boxy" than most and took some dedicated EQ to bring out the latent good sound. The surface of this particular record was good - it
had been played somewhat but not too heavily - and there wasn't very much groove noise to remove from this sample.
