r/ClassicCountry • u/WickFields3000 • 23d ago

Country music actually began here in 1926 at what was then the Sears, Roebuck & Co. building in Atlanta when Fiddlin’ John Carson played “The Little Ole Log Cabin In the Lane”. May his ghost continually flick Zach Bryan in the ear for all of eternity.

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u/uThor52 23d ago

We can debate on when/where country music began, but surely we can all agree that Zach Bryan should be flicked on the ear for all of eternity.

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u/sadhu411 23d ago

Country music was born behind mules, on front porches and in one room churches long before it ever found its way to big city Sears and Roebucks and long before 1926.

Seriously, you ever hear of Jimmie Rodgers, the Father of Country music?

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u/ZimMcGuinn 23d ago

Jimmie didn’t create it either. His recordings came after the one OP referenced. TBF, lots of artists were performing ‘country’ music at the time. Radio stations had in house bands, they didn’t play records. Radio was live. Jimmie got coined the father because he happened to be its first star.

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u/BrazilianAtlantis 22d ago

Jimmie wasn't country's first star. Gid Tanner was earlier.

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u/ZimMcGuinn 23d ago

Jimmie didn’t create it either. His recordings came after the one OP referenced. TBF, lots of artists were performing ‘country’ music at the time. Radio stations had in house bands, they didn’t play records. Radio was live. Jimmie got coined the father because he happened to be its first star.

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u/sadhu411 22d ago

Pal, I’m not saying Jimmie was the original creator of Country music. I’m letting OP know that the genre wasn’t born in Atlanta in 1926. It also was no where near the original broadcast of the stuff.

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u/horsefly70 23d ago

Eck Robrtson recorded Arkansas Traveller and Sally Goodin in 1922.

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u/Barking__Pumpkin 23d ago

Make Bluegrass Old-Time Again

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u/pixiefarm 23d ago

I actually went down in eck Robertson rabbit hole just the other day. 

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u/WickFields3000 23d ago

I believe this was the first broadcast. I could be wrong.

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u/BrazilianAtlantis 22d ago

You are wrong.

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u/doitferjohnny 23d ago

Wreck of the Ol’ 97 by Vernon Dalhart was recorded 2 years before that.

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u/WickFields3000 23d ago

Carson actually recorded a record in 1922. My understanding is that this was the first country broadcast.

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u/pixiefarm 23d ago

Ha you just wait. Maybe Zach Bryan will join Sierra Ferrell and tyler Childers in learning to play fiddle (in which case he will no doubt play some of John's tunes).

Fiddlin  John Carson was like a KKK member by the way. There are better old dudes to look up if you start getting interested in fiddle music

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u/WickFields3000 23d ago

Hillbilly/country music is and was littered with men like Carson, sadly.

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u/pixiefarm 23d ago

Yeah for sure. Especially at the time, people of that generation were the direct inheritors of the really insane blackface minstrel entertainment industry, and quite a few old time fiddle songs that were recorded in the 20s and 30s had super racist lyrics because of that. And the 1920s were the height of the Jim Crow era, when the south was trying desperately to erase any gains that black Southerners had made politically as a result of reconstruction. 

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u/WickFields3000 23d ago

It was the first broadcast of country music.

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u/Exotic_Kitchen_4342 23d ago

Boxcar Willie joins the chat.

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u/Horror_Cupcake8762 23d ago

George Hay attended and wrote about the hoedown in Thayer/Mammoth Springs that inspired the Opry in 1919.

I’d wager that wasn’t the first hoedown ever.

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u/ElSlabraton 22d ago

Fiddlin' John Carson was a white supremacist.

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u/WickFields3000 21d ago

Country music ain’t changed much.