Bryan Wagner
@bwagner.bsky.social
Professor and writer working in vernacular expression, popular music, urban studies, legal history, and digital humanities. UC Berkeley.
Planet Ilunga repressing this incredible collection
La Rumba De Mi Vida, by Franco et l'orchestre O.K. Jazz
22 track album
planetilunga.bandcamp.com
Exciting new work from Archeophone -- the discovery of arguably the earliest extant country music recording, from 1891, by Louis Vasnier, a Black Creole musician from the Seventh Ward of New Orleans.
Genius of the Seventh Ward ⋆ Archeophone Records
Thirty years before some fiddlers from Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgia started recording a new genre of music called “hillbilly,” a Creole of color from the Seventh Ward of New Orleans named Louis Vasnie...
archeophone.com