Posted on 08/02/2019 5:35:34 AM PDT by cowpoke
TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday. On June 14, 1923 Fiddlin’ John Carson entered a building on Nassau Street in Atlanta and recorded The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane. This week I posted the story this historic building is being torn down to be replaced by a Margaritaville hotel (https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/201...) . Carson’s recording was believed to be "one side of the first documented recordings of a southern rural musician." We now know that is not quite right. “Eck Robertson recorded several sides of fiddle music on Victor before Carson made his first recording, and one of the discs was released before Carson's. But it didn't have any impact, probably because Victor considered itself a "prestige" label and had no idea how to market it. (They also, unlike their competitors, had no distribution agreement with a major mail-order company like Sears, and wouldn't until the 1930s, so they missed a prime means of distribution to rural buyers.) Carson's OKeh disc, backed with The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster's Going to Crow," wasn't the first, but it was the one that started the avalanche.” Read more about the tune here: http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/bal...
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