Alda said he became a Mainer in 1957 when he played at the Kennebunkport Playhouse. In 1939, Parker hired Homer Sherrill on fiddle; Mainer, Stokes and Morris had left earlier. The song was reworked in 1937 by J. E. Mainer. Crash Barry describes some details of K's personal life in a profile for Mainer News. Mainer retired from General Motors in 1973. Mainer named this new band Sons of the Mountaineers. Soon, Mainer began performing at local country barn dances. The next year, in 1937, Wade Mainer formed the "Sons of the Mountaineers". Mainer participated in the IBCA 2005 in the National Gallery in Prague. Mainer was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame on October 11, 2012.