Protected: Victor cue-sheet, NYC Studio #1, August 3, 1939.
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“Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard” released November 6, 2012
I’m tickled to say that November 6, 2012, marks the release of Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music, 1923–1936, a box-set drawn […]
Alan Lomax’s “List of American Folk Songs on Commercial Records” (1940)
Jazz collector Kenneth Hulsizer wrote that when he met Jelly Roll Morton in his role as the impresario/bouncer/bartender at D.C.’s Jungle Inn, circa 1936–1937, and asked him if he still had […]
The Don Wahle Collection
One evening late in March 2010, my friend Joe called. He told me that his friend Chris had been on a dumpster job that day, helping clean out the house […]
For the Folks At Home: CBS at Churchill Downs, 1939
“We’ve been walking over to a group of boys who seem to be taking their duties pretty lightly at the moment.” The renowned sportscaster Ted Husing is in Louisville to […]
The 1931 Louisville Sessions
On the afternoon of June 12, 1931, the two biggest acts in country music, Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, magically visited each other in their respective homes of Kerrville, […]
Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey at 50 (and 51)
In October I will have worked for the Alan Lomax Archive for ten years. (I remark to friends with some regularity about this being my only job as an adult, […]
