Ragged But Right
In many ways, the story of Atlanta, Georgia's Skillet Lickers, is the story of early country music. When the South's first commercial radio station, WSB, began broadcasting live hillbilly music in...
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  "Pluperfect awful" was how OKeh's Ralph Peer described John Carson's singing when, at local music retailer Polk Brockman's urging, he recorded two songs by the longtime Georgia "old time" fiddling champion during a 1923 field trip to Atlanta. Much to Peer's astonishment, the 55-year-old Carson's rendition of the late 1800s minstrel tune, "Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane," pleased listeners as much as its instrumental flip, "The Old Hen Cackled And The Rooster's Going To Crow." After the original, unlabeled pressing of 500 instantly sold out, the record was formally added to the OKeh catalogue-and put authentic country music on the national map.

(W. Hayes/J. Randolph); Fiddlin' John Carson, fiddle and vocal; Rec. Atlanta, June 14, 1923. OKeh 4890 (mx. 8374-B); Originally Released 1923