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Discoveries like this are fascinating to me. "With home players not available until the late 1890s, Vasnier performances would have been heard on the wax cylinders installed in coin-operated jukeboxes." Amazing this survived. Thanks, @gedge1.bsky.social, for highlighting this.
The earliest known ‘country’ recording has been found. The singer? A Black man.
A new release of an 1891 song by Louis Vasnier deepens what we know about the genre’s origins.
washingtonpost.com
For example, this is the amazing bowling trick I pulled off and always believed should go viral and never has. youtu.be/mjsY8jX_V64?...
Boston Style Bowling Trick
YouTube video by Sean Wainsteim
youtu.be
The only real way to make this thing work - like Twitter did in the golden days - is to post amazing things AND for Steve Martin to join. I’m going to try to post once a day.
@jamieleecurtis.bsky.social hey JLC. I only have 18 followers and I miss Norm, who will forever be stuck on X and like bananas. Thanks for being here and follow me so I can be the first you’re following. It’ll impress my kids.