Old Time Blues
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Old Time Blues is a weblog founded in 2015 by writer and folklore collector R.C. Montgomery with a mission to preserve and chronicle the music contained within the grooves of decades old 78 RPM records, and bring their sounds to the ears of a new generation of listeners, as a sort of digital archive of historic 78 RPM phonograph records. On Old Time Blues, you will find musical marvels of all..
Old Time Blues
1w ago
In his all-too-brief four year recording career, Blind Lemon Jefferson produced nearly one-hundred songs that helped to define the country blues and open the door for future guitar-slinging blues singers to record their art. All but one of those records ..read more
Old Time Blues
3M ago
One of the true blue, larger-than-life Texas characters, Red River Dave McEnery tried his hand at just about every occupation that appealed to him at one point or another: prolific songwriter, blue yodeler, rodeo cowboy, television personality, real estate agent ..read more
Old Time Blues
4M ago
While now regarded alongside the nigh-legendary Blind Willie Johnson as a pioneer of the gospel music genre, snuff-dipping jack-leg preacher from Texas Washington Phillips was once largely forgotten and shrouded by mystery and misconceptions. Today, thanks to the tireless efforts ..read more
Old Time Blues
4M ago
Yet another casualty to the march of time, Dallas singer Ben Norsingle cut two records for the Brunswick company in 1928, yet today he resides among the countless practitioners of the early blues now shrouded in obscurity. What can be ..read more
Old Time Blues
4M ago
A foremost figure of Texas ragtime, Euday L. Bowman is best known as the composer of one of the most widely performed rags in history: “12th Street Rag”. Yet despite his renown as a composer, Bowman life and times have ..read more
Old Time Blues
4M ago
The last time we heard from the famed “Dixie Dewdrop”, Uncle Dave Macon, it was with two of his earliest recordings. This time around, let us turn our attention to thirteen years later, at the height of the Great Depression ..read more
Old Time Blues
4M ago
In Old Time Blues’ tradition of honoring the great figures of Texas fiddle, we have chronicled the lives of pioneers like Eck Robertson and Moses J. Bonner, legends like Bob Wills and Hoyle Nix, and lesser-known outsiders like Elmo Newcomer. ..read more
Old Time Blues
4M ago
Another one of those hidden figures of the blues who made a few records at one session and promptly disappeared into obscurity, few details are concretely known about the life of Texas-Louisiana musician “Stick-Horse” Hammond, who made a small handful ..read more
Old Time Blues
4M ago
Boasting ninety years of continuous operation, and an active recording career only slightly shorter, the venerable Light Crust Doughboys from Burrus Mill of Fort Worth, Texas, can rightly lay claim to the title of longest-running western swing band in the ..read more
Old Time Blues
4M ago
Against odds stacked against him, the guitar evangelist and musical visionary Blind Willie Johnson rightly secured his place as a gospel music pioneer and veritable legend in the annals of American music. While he found neither great fame nor fortune ..read more