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TRUMPET RECORDS: DIAMONDS ON FARISH STREET

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TRUMPET RECORDS: DIAMONDS ON FARISH STREET by Marc W. Ryan: In a new edition, the history of a regional record company and the blues, gospel, and R&B greats it launched nationally. Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Milton, James Waller - all furthered their careers at the little label on Farish Street, in the historic black district of Jackson, Mississippi. It was started by Lillian McMurry, a white woman who was so taken by a found record by Wynonie Harris that she decided to record more music like it. Includes accounts of recording sessions, and McMurry's attempts to fuse country and African American popular music into what would become rock'n'roll. 225 pp.
#701-1 .. $20.00

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