The Bristol sessions
Subtitle: writings about the big bang of country music
By: edited by Charles K. Wolfe and Ted Olson
Contributors: Olson, Ted; Wolfe, Charles K
Series: Contributions to southern Appalachian studies -- 12
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Country music -- History and criticism; Sound recordings -- Tennessee -- Bristol
Description: "These 19 essays offer an examination and reevaluation of the Bristol sessions--from their germination, to the actual sessions, to their place in history and continuing influence"--Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Before the Bristol sessions. Early sound recording technology and the Bristol sessions / Eric Morritt; title: Pt. 2. The Bristol sessions. The legend that Peer built : reappraising the Bristol sessions / Charles K. Wolfe ; The Bristol sessions : the cast of characters / Charles K. Wolfe ; Jimmie Rodgers and the Bristol sessions / John Lilly ; Something old, something new : the Carter Family's Bristol sessions recordings / Katie Doman; title: The Blackard-Shelor story : biography of a hillbilly string band / Tom Carter ; Gospel according to Bristol : the life, music and ministry of Ernest Phipps / Brandon Story ; The life of Alfred G. Karnes / Donald Lee Nelson ; The life of Blind Alfred Reed / The Rounder Collective ; The West Virginia coon hunters : on the trail of a lost mountain state string band / John Lilly; title: Pt. 3. Remembering the Bristol sessions. Discovery of the first hillbilly great / Ralph Peer ; My husband, Jimmie Rodgers / Carrie Rodgers ; Before the myth was born : Claude Grant of the Tenneva Ramblers remembers Jimmie Rodgers / Richard Blaustein ; I remember Daddy / Gladys Carter Millard ; My memories of the  Bristol sessions / Mabel Phelps Morrell; title: Pt. 4. Musicological studies of the Bristol sessions. Ernest Stoneman's 1927 session : hillbilly recordings of gospel hymns / Jocelyn Neal ; On the vanguard of change : Jimmie Rodgers and Alfred G. Karnes in Bristol, 1927 / Thomas Townsend; title: Pt. 5. After the Bristol sessions. The rest of the story : other early recording sessions in the  tri-cities area / Charles K. Wolfe ; The birthplace of country music, 75 years later : the cradle still rocks / Ted Olson and Ajay Kalra