Richmond, Indiana - Music Mecca

Did you think Indiana had no place in the history of American Music? Read The History of American Music, as Recorded in Richmond, Indiana and see how wrong you were:

So goes the story of Gennett Records, captured primarily through anecdotes and long lost 78-rpm shellac records. The Richmond-based label captured performances by many of the preeminent American recording artists of nearly a century ago. In total, Gennett produced foundational recordings across the musical landscape, including some of the most important blues, jazz, and country music ever recorded—Alberta Hunter, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Big Bill Broonzy. A young, yodeling Gene Autry recorded his first songs at Gennett, long before his career as “The Singing Cowboy” had begun. And blues originator Charley Patton tracked his legendary Paramount sides in the Gennett studio.

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