Bryan Wagner (@bwagner.bsky.social)

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.

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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... https://www.archeophone.com/catalogue/louis-vasnier-genius-of-the-seventh-ward/