The second article in the history of country music covered the trends and artists of the depression and pre-war years, 1930-41. Here we'll look at some of the songs of the era. The photo on the cover comes from a superb series of colour photos from the US in the 1930s and '40s . * * * Rock 'n' roll grew out of R&B and various shades of country, especially rockabilly, a sub-genre [...]
The titles of posts in this series may be a bit confusing. They will refer to the timespan covered in the mixes. But this post looks at the era from about 1930 to about 1941. The next post will include the 1937-41 mix, but the text will be a sidebar to this article, also referring to 1930-41. I hope that nakes sense... Record sales collapsed dramatically with the Depression, with sales dropping from 104 million in 1927 to just 6 million in 1932. Some records still sold prodigiously, [...]
Yesterday morning was lovely. One of those Sunday mornings where you wake up and the sun is out and the light in the house is perfect and there's nothing else going on. The Sunday paper was waiting on the driveway, coffee brewed, and the baby was happy. We sat an enjoyed the morning for many hours, listening to a playlist I'd made that was solely comprised of music from the 1930s and 40s, which only added to how pleasant everything felt. Here's a taste of it--ten songs from the 1930s. In my house music from the 30s means mostly country [...]
Coon Creek Girls – Sowing On The Mountain ( buy ) I really love the mountain harmonies and enthusiasm displayed by the Coon Creek Girls on this one. Be sure to check out a great Life Magazine photo of the gals performing at Renfro Valley, Kentucky, in 1942.
If they hadn't already existed, someone would've had to invent this clutch of banjo picking, fiddle playing, guitar strumming mountain women, these Coon Creek Girls. And, in fact, someone did: a Chicago radio man ( WLS ) named John Lair. It was the1930s, and a nascent country music industry knew that packaging and marketing old-timey music to the Appalachian diaspora in the midst of tectonic cultural and economic shifts (agrarian to urban, subsistence farming to industrialized mining), was profitable. But the nostalgia peddlers struggled to find enough talent to populate its on-air barndances and road tours; many [...]
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