Their recordings, numbering in the thousands, now reside in the Smithsonian Institution. recording music played and sung by ordinary people, helping establish the canon of genres known today as American folk music. Subsequently, the early Delta blues (as well as other genres) were extensively recorded by John Lomax and his son Alan Lomax, who crisscrossed the southern U.S. ![]() Problems playing this file? See media help. Many other artists were recorded during this period. Robert Johnson recorded his only sessions, in San Antonio in 1936 and in Dallas in 1937, for ARC. He also traveled to New York City for recording sessions in January and February 1934. Charley Patton also recorded for Paramount in Grafton, in June 1929 and May 1930. Son House first recorded in Grafton, Wisconsin, in 1930 for Paramount Records. Robert Wilkins was first recorded by Victor in Memphis in 1928, and Big Joe Williams and Garfield Akers by Brunswick/ Vocalion, also in Memphis, in 1929. According to Dixon and Godrich (1981), Tommy Johnson and Ishmon Bracey were recorded by Victor on that company's second field trip to Memphis, in 1928. Record company talent scouts made some of the early recordings on field trips to the South, and some performers were invited to travel to northern cities to record. Current belief is that Freddie Spruell is the first Delta blues artist to have been recorded his "Milk Cow Blues" was recorded in Chicago in June 1926. Live performances, however, more commonly involved a group of musicians. The major labels produced the earliest recordings, consisting mostly of one person singing and playing an instrument. Although Delta blues certainly existed in some form or another at the turn of the twentieth century, it was first recorded in the late 1920s, when record companies realized the potential African-American market for " race records".
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