In the 1920s Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas Atlanta and New Orleans where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers medicine show performers pianists from the juke joints and barrelhous... Lees meer.

A pioneering scholar of the blues explores the folk traditions that predated and shaped this uniquely American music as we know it. In the 1920s Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas Atlanta and New Orleans where they set up primitive recording... Lees meer.