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An interview with pioneering ragtime blues musician Antonio Maggio appears in the Times-Picayune Newspaper of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. In the interview Maggio asserts that he is an anarchist but denies that he supports the idea of assassination being used to achieve anarchist goals. (Maggio's song I Got The Blues is sometimes credited as being the first blues song ever composed)
Bob McCracken, a Dixieland and New Orleans jazz clarinettist
who will play in the orchestras of Jack Teagarden, Joe
Venuti, Benny
Goodman, Russ Morgan, Kid Ory and
others, is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.
James Corbitt Morris is born in Timbo, Arkansas, USA. He will find success as prolific songwriter and musician, Jimmy Driftwood, best-known for his songs The Battle of New Orleans and Tennessee Stud.The Times-Picayune newspaper of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, reports that local entrepreneur William A. Morris has handed over the management of The American Music Hall to Henry Greenwall, who has promised to uphold the legacy of the establishment.
Johnny
DeDroit And His New Orleans Jazz Orchestra record Panama, Nobody Knows Blues and New Orleans Blues, for OKeh Records in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Jazz trombonist Kid Ory registers his best-known composition, Muskrat Ramble, for copyright purposes, with copyright registration number E637451. The melody will inspire Country Joe And The Fish who will appropriate it as the tune of their 1960s anti-Vietnam war hit Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die.
Kid Rena's Delta Jazz Band record Panama, Gettysburg March, Milenberg Joys, Lowdown Blues, High Society, Clarinet M armalade, Weary Blues and Get It Right, for Delta/Riverside Records at WWL Radio Station, Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Barbara Ann Smith is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Under the name Barbara George, she will score one major hit in the USA, I Know [You Don't Love Me No More], which will peak at No3 in 1961.
Nellie Lutcher opens for a series of shows at The Storyville Club, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Rock?n?roll movie Shake, Rattle And Rock (aka Shake, Rattle And Roll) goes on release in the USA with performances by Fats Domino and Big Joe Turner.
Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Frankie Lymon, Larry Williams, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and others appear at The Paramount Theater, New York City, USA, in deejay Alan Freed's annual Big Beat Show.
ABC-tv in the US broadcasts the first televised tribute to the recording industry, entitled The Record Years, hosted by Dick Clark, with guests Johnny Mathis, Fabian, The McGuire Sisters, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Fats Domino and comedy record maker Stan Freberg.
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry releases a new single, You Always Hurt The One You Love, on Argo Records in the USA.
Fats Domino records What A Party, Rockin' Bicycle and Did You Ever See A Dream Walking at Cosimo Recording Studio, 525 Governor Nicholls Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
When 
Songwriter Tommy Barnes is born in Tupelo, Mississippi, USA. His biggest successes will be the platinum single Indian Outlaw by Tim McGraw, and the gold single My Love by Little Texas.
I Know [You Don't Love Me No More] by Barbara George enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No3 during an eleven-week run on the chart.
Margie Singleton records Old Records for Mercury Records at Bradley Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Singleton also joins Faron Young to cut Keeping Up With The Joneses.
Louis Armstrong and Pat Boone are the musical guests on tv's The Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA.
Jazz and popular music composer, pianist and singer Spencer Williams, dies aged 75 in Flushing, New York State, USA. William is remembered for his hit songs Basin Street Blues, I Ain't Got Nobody, Royal Garden Blues, I've Found a New Baby, Everybody Loves My Baby and Tishomingo Blues.
Hot Tuna play the first of three nights at The New Orleans House, Berkeley, California, USA. They are supported on this first night by all-girl band The Ace Of Cups.
Hot Tuna play the second of three nights at The New Orleans House, Berkeley, California, USA. They are supported on this night by Mount Rushmore.
B.B. King, Fats Domino and Muddy Waters play at The Pistola Blues Festival, Piazza Duomo, Pistoia, Italy
Amnesty International starts a worldwide tour - the Conspiracy Of Hope concerts - at The Cow Palace, San Francisco, California, USA, featuring U2, Sting, Bryan Adams, Peter Gabriel, Jackson Browne, Lou Reed, Joan Baez and the Neville Brothers.
On a brief visit to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Bruce Springsteen stops into the Maple Leaf Club and gets up on stage with local band Blues Department to play five songs.
Not a Moment Too Soon, the second LP by Tim McGraw hits No1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart in the USA. It will spend 29 weeks in the top slot, becoming Billboard's best-selling Country album of 1994. The Academy of Country Music will also name it Album Of The Year.
Country recording star Faron Young dies, aged 64, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, having attempted suicide by shooting himself the previous day. His ashes are scattered during a ceremony at Johnny Cash's estate, while Cash is away. Unfortunately, a gust of wind blows the ashes onto Cash's car. "When I came home, I found I had Faron on my windshield", remarked Cash later. "I turned the wipers on. There he went, back and forth, back and forth, until he was all gone."
Outrageous bluesman Curly 'Barefoot' Miller dies of a heart attack and stroke, in Dallas, Texas, USA, with his bank account standing at $4.
Having been missing for a week Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes of TLC fame re-appears on an "Inside Edition" video shot in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She claims to have spent the week shopping for wedding rings with her boyfriend, Sean Newman.
The Neville Brothers and Steel Pulse play at Montalvo, Saratoga, California, USA.
Brad Paisley is voted America's favourite country star in a survey
conducted by the Country Radio Broadcasters Inc. and Edison
Research. Over 13,000 country music radio listeners were polled -
and chose Paisley ahead of Brooks And Dunn, George Strait, Trace
Adkins, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and Tim MCGraw.
The Neville Brothers, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and The Trey McIntyre Project play at Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA.
English actor and comedian Hugh Laurie releases a New Orleans-style blues album, Let Them Talk, with guests including Irma Thomas, Dr. John and Tom Jones.
During her Halcyon Days tour, Ellie Goulding plays at Buku Music And Arts Project, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.Meschiya Lake And The Little Big Horns play at One Eyed Jacks, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
On the second North American leg of his ÷ Tour, Ed Sheeran plays at The Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, supported by Snow Patrol and Lauv.
Lloyd Price dies, aged 88, in Schaffer Extended Care in Westchester County, New York State, USA.
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