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, [...]
Delmore Brothers : I´ve Got The Big River Blues Monroe Brothers : Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy Blue Sky Boys : Are You From Dixie? [ purchase ] With Christmas approaching fast, it´s high time for [...]
This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, ... and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me. J.D. Salinger "For Esmé - with Love and Squalor" 1950. from Nine Stories Little Brown and Company © 1953. Download: "Nine [...]
Doc Watson - Texas Gales / Blackberry Rag (medley) ( buy ) Late 19th century saw an increasing immigration wave from Europe, especially Mediterranean countries like Greece or Italy, or Eastern and Central Europe. Those groups had their influence on American popular music and especially in country, not so much as the Afro Americans, but undoubtdedly noticeable. If Italian folklore is not directly perceived in country, the growing use of the mandoline , first a Napolitan instrument, is a major contribution. According to various sources, it seems that the mandolin was first introduced in [...]
The great country duets of Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, and even the commercial country harmonies of the Judds, the Statler Brothers and the Gatlin Brothers, all owe a debt to one of the very foundations of American music, the close harmony. While the fiddle was the most important instrument in early America, and very often the only instrument in rural communities, a lack of instruments did not deter the hard working folks that cleared a few acres of rough mountain terrain to make a home in the [...]
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