The Washington Post
John Levin had no idea what he’d stumbled upon at first. About 10 years ago, the collector paid about $100 for a box of wax cylinders at an auction in Pennsylvania coal country. Those cylinders – the oldest commercial medium of recorded music – sat in his house for years until Levin put one of the unlabeled, decaying brown tubes onto his custom player and heard an old country song. Like 133 years old.
It is fascinating to listen to really old recordings. I have heard a recording of someone born in the 18th century.
Old photos are great as well. There is a photo of the earliest born person to be photographed. I think he was born in the 1740’s as I recall.
What do I know. I would have classified that as Folk Music. What’s the difference?
Kieth Richards was playing the spoons and Willy Nelson was pouring the bourbon…
Before 1949 country music was called hillbilly music.
“Before 1949 country music was called hillbilly music.”
I beg to differ. That was Folk music. If you play a Hillbilly song backwards do you get your Truck, Dog, and wife back? No. I rest my case.
We got both kinds of music, country And western.
I wouldn’t have been a country music fan then either.
Anything but the six lame acts that the CMT and CMA and CMwhatever continuously want to ram down our throats would be a welcome change.
Bro, that ain’t country, it’s just boring shitty music.
i don’t listen to tractor-rap
I said in the comments that it sounded more like early Blues. Somebody else called it Country Blues, which is probably a better descriptive. Of course, declaring it anything but “Country” undercuts WaPo’s narrative that Country music was invented by black people and ha, ha, ha on all the corn shucking racist white people. It’s a sick fetish with the left to inject race into everything.
The wife left me, and the dog died.