Barrelhouse Blues: Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues by Paul Oliver

Barrelhouse Blues: Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues

Paul Oliver

228 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history music challenging informative medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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 juk...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...