Recorded on June 13 or 14, 1923 in Atlanta. Polk Brockman ran a furniture store in Atlanta and in order to market phonographs had devloped a flourishing business selling "race" 78rpm recordings. In 1923, Ralph Peer arrived in Atlanta looking for black talent to record. Brockman imposed on him to record local fiddle champion Fiddlin' John Carson. Peer recorded Carson, but was unimpressed and issued this recording without even a label to the Atlanta market only. This first issue sold out and when Brockman ordered more copies, Peer realized there might be gold in them thar hills. This recording is acknowledged as the first country tune to be recorded and marketed on a commercial basis.
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Reviewer:johnorford - - October 14, 2008 Subject: 19th century fiddling Carson was born in 1868, so his style is worth hearing, even if Ralph Peer did call it "pluperfect awful". He doesn't quite match Charles Santley, recorded in 1913 and born in 1834, but it's fine stuff.
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