[78-L] Bristol Sessions article in today's Wall Street Journal

[Gregg Kimball]

My friend Ron Curry produced a nice two-CD set of the Richmond, Virginia, 
Okeh session of October 1929. It's interesting both because it covers the 
entire state (Tidewater gospel quartets to Southwest Virginia old-time), and 
it highlights the growing prominence of radio artists. My favorite sides are 
the quartets and the Tubize Royal Hawaiians, a factory band from Hopewell, 
Virginia. Ron and I later acquired a 78 we couldn't locate for the 
compilation by the Virginia Male Quartet.

Gregg



>
> What I would like to see is a compilation on another important session 
> Victor held four-and-a-half years later. It seems that other than Robert 
> Johnson, nobody has talked about concurrent recordings of field sessions 
> consisting of varying, but important artists. I find this kind of indexing 
> to be fascinating in compiling discographies. I've done it twice: in my 
> Decca Hill Billy Discography and my Discography of Western Swing and Hot 
> String Bands books. It's illuminating to see which groups and acts 
> recorded during a single field recording session.
>