Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Recording industry

‘Can You Sing Or Play Old-Time Music?’ — The Johnson City Sessions

The Bristol Sessions were revolutionary, but the Johnson City Sessions recordings reflect more eclectic tastes & a keener sense of humor.

This 50 minute instructional CD for middle schoolers is a love song to Appalachian culture in story and song, by West Virginian Adam Booth.

In the 1970s Garret Mathews, columnist for Bluefield, WV’s ‘Daily Telegraph,’ traveled back into the hollows with photographer Wade Sprees.

Roger Cooper is a link to the past for what he calls Big Sandy River style fiddling. He says, “I’ve never heard anybody else call it that.”

In 1928 & 1929, Frank Buckley Walker, Columbia Records’ head of “hillbilly” recordings division, headed to Johnson City, TN.

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