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The band made the first commercial recordings in Memphis, Tennessee, and recorded more sides than any other prewar jug band. [2] Beginning in 1926, African-American musicians in the Memphis area grouped around the singer, songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player Will Shade (also known as Son Brimmer or Sun
Bertram was born in Fentress County, Tennessee, United States, [1] into a musical family. Through the 1920s and 1930s, he played with other musicians of the Cumberland Plateau . Despite prevailing racial segregation , he played frequently with the white fiddler Leonard Rutherford, who would stay at Bertram's house to make music.
DeFord Bailey [4] (December 14, 1899 – July 2, 1982) [5] was an American singer-songwriter and musician, who was considered the first African American country music and blues star. He started his career in the 1920s and was one of the first performers to be introduced on Nashville radio station WSM 's Grand Ole Opry , and becoming alongside ...
Her career as singer and songwriter flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, and she appeared in clubs and on stage in musicals in both New York and London. The songs she wrote include the critically acclaimed "Downhearted Blues" (1922). [15] She recorded several records with Perry Bradford from 1922 to 1927.
This category includes musicians, including singers, who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the U.S. state of Tennessee The main article for this category is Music of Tennessee .
Black Vaudeville is a term that specifically describes Vaudeville-era African American entertainers and the milieus of dance, music, and theatrical performances they created. Spanning the years between the 1880s and early 1930s, these acts not only brought elements and influences unique to American black culture directly to African Americans ...
Gustavus Cannon (September 12, 1883 [1] – October 15, 1979) was an American blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands (such as his own Cannon's Jug Stompers) in the 1920s and 1930s. There is uncertainty about his birth year; his tombstone gives the date as 1874.
Blues, a type of black folk music originating in the American South, were mainly in the form of work songs until about 1900. [1] Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886–1939), known as "The Mother of the Blues", is credited as the first to perform the blues on stage as popular entertainment when she began incorporating blues into her act of show songs and comedy around 1902.