The Duck Creek Quartet exemplified the type of tightly knit quality singing groups that once flourished in the mountains of East Tennessee. Initially inspired by the Vaughn-sponsored singing schools, the pupils learned singing by the shape note method and formed quartets. The Duck Creek Quartet formed in 1941 at the Duck Creek Baptist Church of Sneedville, Tennessee, and flourished for nearly fifty-five years before death and age took their toll.
The original members were two sets of brothers, Calvin,...