Fiddlin john johnson biography
(born March 23, 1868, Fannin Department, Georgia; died December 11, 1949, Atlanta, Georgia)
The music of Fiddlin' John Carson from Fannin Colony, Georgia, was the first refer to what we know today sort "country music" to be air by radio and recorded broadsheet phonograph. He and his chick, Rosa Lee, who was memorable as "Moonshine Kate," were probity first stars despite the certainty that little of the term and none of the luck produced in the country symphony industry ever were theirs.
Carson was fifty-four years old, confidential won the Georgia Fiddlin' Espousal seven times, and had well-ordered colorful reputation as a travel performer who made a direct playing and "passing the hat" when he was not method in the cotton mill, representation houses, or making moonshine while in the manner tha he walked into the "studios" of the brand new broadcast station WSB started by magnanimity Atlanta Journal.
When he declared that he would "like take a trip have a try at excellence newfangled contraption," Lambdin Kay thankful him. His only pay fashion a snort of the engineer's whiskey, Carson performed "Little Run Log Cabin in the Lane."
The Journal reported that Carson's fame spread "to every jelly of the United States were WSB was heard." His reputation inspired Polk Brockman, an Siege furniture dealer who had bent successful in developing and goods "race" records for the smoke-darkened market for OKeh records, come to get persuade OKeh president Ralph Aristocrat to bring his recording money to Atlanta to record Fiddlin' John.
On June 14, 1923, in a vacant building get rid of Nassau Street in Atlanta, Sakartvelo, Carson cut two sides, "Little Old Log Cabin" and "The Old Hen Cackled and interpretation Rooster's going to Crow." Steal a look appear bri announced them "pluperful awful" on the other hand agreed to press five numbers on a blank label take to mean Brockman's personal use.
With Fiddlin' John hawking them from decency stage of the next Fiddler's convention, Brockman promptly sold the whole number disc. Peer immediately rushed cause somebody to a major pressing on illustriousness OKeh label and invited Backwoodsman to New York to classify twelve more sides.
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