When it comes to their adopted music, these guys have become fishers of men, proselytizers for Old Time's serrated simplicity. We may wear suits when we play, but we always go to gigs with dirty hands. We first started dressing up because these old guys, they'd have to put on their Sunday best to play. And now, since we've been doing it for so long, it's like I get into this mode when I put on my suit. While both recorded volumes contain a pair of fine original songs, the Dickels cop the backbone of their repertoire from recordings made in Old Time's eastern heartland between 1925 and 1935.
People look at the suits and think the goal is to have a cute gimmick.
The point is to capture the feeling of this music, and appearance is just part of that. If you were to try to go and get any original version of the songs that we're putting on these albums, you'd have a hell of a time. I mean, you can't find the Skillet Lickers . We're just putting them back into circulation as best we can. For sure, Volume Two doesn't carry too many cobwebs.