Appalachian History » 1927 Bristol Sessions –not the ‘Big Bang’ of country music? 2 of 2
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Stories, quotes and anecdotes..Appalachian History 1927 Bristol Sessions not the Big Bang of country music? 2 of 2 Appalachian History Stories, quotes and anecdotes. 1927 Bristol Sessions not the Big Bang of country music? 2 of 2 Posted by Dave Tabler | May 20, 2010 Part 2 of 2 In Atlanta Gid Tanner was recommended and Tanner brought blind guitarist Riley Puckett with him to New York on March 7, 1924 to back-up his fiddle. Puckett became Columbia’s and Walker’s first country star, and picked his way through Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane accompanied on fiddle by Tanner. Sheet music for Little Old Log Cabin, 1913 for Alma Gluck. On the flip side Puckett yodeled on Rock All Our Babies to Sleep, introducing a technique that was destined to longevity in country music. Their disc was released on May 20 and was an immediate success. Columbia viewed this new music style as niche music for poor southern whites, and didn’t want to alienate their existing base of both northe rners and wealthier southerners. Initially, says Walker, “The music was not understood by my own people, and they said under no circumstances could we put anything of that sort on the market. But after due pleading on my part they agreed to let me do it providing we not make mention of it in any way. We must not put it on any of our [advertising] hangers or anything.” The year 1924 is noteworthy in country music’s history because it produced the first multi-million selling tune ever. For Thomas Edison’s recording firm that summer vaudeville singer Vernon Dalhart recorded a cover of a Henry Whitter railroad ballad accompanied by his own harmonica playing and Frank Feraras Hawaiian guitar. The Wreck on the Southern Old 97 (Edison Diamond Disc 51316) was issued in August, and a month later was dubbed for release on Edison Blue Amberol Cylinder 4898. When it crashed in September 1903, the Old 97 was en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina. All four car s went off the tracks and hit the rocky bottom of the shallo! w creek below the S...
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