Visions of Coahoma

By Nathan Salsburg

Sundown Man

By Nathan Salsburg

Got to Ease Up On

For Bessie Jones, music was a means of honoring her enslaved ancestors, as she called them, and uplifting her hard-driven contemporaries.

By Nathan Salsburg

That Look in His Eyes at 4:05

By Nathan Salsburg

"Camp Nelson Blues"

Eighteen years separated Jim (b. 1872) and Joe (b. 1890), and the brothers would have commanded a broad repertoire that likely incorporated pop songs of the day, rags and cakewalks, banjo breakdowns...

By Nathan Salsburg

"Wondrous Love" and "Pretty Polly"

It might also serve to commend the music that Glyn Morris and the Pine Mountain singers made to the tradition at large: a reimagining of a reimagining of that tradition.

By Nathan Salsburg

I SHALL NOT WANT

Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917–1927) is a collaboration between the Revenant label and Third Man Records, and has been released roughly 80 years after Paramount, for all intents...

By Nathan Salsburg

It's Only Perfect Because He's Authentic

By Nathan Salsburg

REISSUE: LET ME PLAY THIS FOR YOU

Cajun records of this vintage are among the rarest and most sought after among collectors. Let Me Play This For You: Rare Cajun Music, 1929–1930, assembled by Ron Brown and Christopher King (two of...

By Nathan Salsburg