Fact #59827

An advertisement in The Herald Courier newspaper of Bristol, Tennessee, USA, invites local musicians to attend recording sessions supervised by producer Ralph Peer in The Taylor-Christian Hat Company warehouse on State Street in Bristol. In the days that follow, Peer will record performances by Ernest V. Stoneman's Dixie Mountaineers, 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. These historic recording dates will become known as The Bristol Sessions