The general interest in rural american music, what to day generally is known as Country music, started after the Texan fiddler Eck Robertson recorded his version of "Sally Goodin" (with the "Arkansas Traveller" on the flip side). Thousands of workers who made their way from the Appalachians to the factories of the north in search of good jobs bought the discs and pulled out their own fiddles in giant contests. Talent scouts set of for the rural cities of the south and recorded numerous artists on their field trips. All this made up for the fiddle craze, giving unknown popularity to an instrument that was known commonly as the Devil's Box, and was not allowed to be played in public in many communities of the South. When some of the remote cottage where demolished decades later there were still fiddles to be found in walls where they were hidden by ther former owners With the arrival of better recording techniques the fiddle craze was soon over in favour of vocalists. Eck Robertson himself became a renowned fiddler, still active when the folk revial rediscovered him 40 years after his first recording session.