Special to the Wheeling Daily Register, Jan. 20, 1894: WILD E, W. Va., January 19. – John Hardy, for killing Thomas Drews, both colored, was hung at 2:09 p.m. to-day. Three thousand people witnessed his death. His neck was broken and […]
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From a small glass enclosure on the second floor of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, WBCM Radio Bristol is like the little radio station that could. It may not have the range of Memphis’ WDIA that is the subject […]
As he sat onstage in the Ford Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame, Ralph Peer II could talk about his global publishing empire that spanned eight countries and copyrights from present day stars including Jack White, Beyonce and Jason […]
Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music by Barry Mazor (Chicago Review Press, 2014, 340 Pages, $13.49/28.96) is a must-read for anyone interested in the development and popularization of roots music, not only from the US but from Latin […]
The mountains of the Southern Appalachia have long been recognised as a breeding ground for traditional music. The earliest settlers brought their instruments and musical traditions, which were fused together to form country, blues, folk, and other styles of American […]
In the beginning, it was all country. The truth and the myth came together on the front porches and parlors as well as at the small village churches, stores with cracker barrels, corner bars, and honky-tonks … all the places […]
Imagine my delight during a recent U.S visit to be given a complete set of trading cards dedicated to the “Pioneers of Country Music”. Then add the joy of discovering that they were drawn by the great counter-culture illustrator R. Crumb. First, the […]
Re-posted from the The Winding Stream website: These three didn’t just play the music emerging from their hill country upbringing. They invented it. A.P. was both song collector and composer, crafting and arranging snippets of ancient, musty melodies into commercial American […]
These two collections are the final chapters in an extensive reissue campaign of the Carter Family’s marathon recording sessions with RCA Victor. Culled from old 78s released on RCA’s budget-line subsidiary, Bluebird, these Rounder reissues display A.P. Carter, his then-wife […]
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