Fact #59826
When:
Short story:
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.
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