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Fact #59826

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In a makeshift studio set up by producer Ralph Peer in The Taylor-Christian Hat Company warehouse in Bristol, Tennessee, USA, Ernest V. Stoneman's Dixie Mountaineers record Are You Washed in the Blood?, Skip To Ma Lou, Mountain Courtship and Corn Shuckin', for Victrola Records. This is the first day of recording in what has since become known as The Bristol Sessions. Subsequent days will feature local country and gospel acts including Blind Alfred Reed, Henry Whitter, Albert Karnes, Ernest Phillips and His Holiness Quartet, B.F. Shelton, El Watson, The Johnson Brothers, J.P. Nextor and Norman Edmonds, Dad Blackard And The Shelors, The Alcoa Quartet, Mr. And Mrs. J.W. Baker, Red Snodgrass and The West Virginia Coonhunters.