There were several. Charlie Patton was one.
Depends on the label. There were lots of small time "race" labels. Someone like Mississippi John Hurt would have made more money than he'd ever had before, but in the scheme of things it wasn't impressive. He went back to being a farm hand. It wasn't a living. It was a local fame, and he played local gigs. But he needed the day job.
Indeed.
I hope this is not a look anyone considers adopting unless well and truly off their nut.
look like he just made one record in the 20s that tanked though, so he wasn't really a recording artist.... whereas people like robert johnson who made multiple records were kind of successful.
Sure, Johnson was more successful than Hurt, but not as successful as, say, Louis Armstrong. Heebie Jeebies, for example, sold 40,000 copies in less than a month. In 26, two years before Hurt was recording Avalon Blues. And even then, Armstrong wasn't the name at this point that he later became.
I have a feeling you should be having this discussion with Idaho.
Keeping with the early 20th century records derail, I went to an amazing lecture last year - Ian Nagoski, who runs a reissue label called Canary Records: he ended up doing what he does by digging through piles of 78s, which had already had all the canon blues, jazz & country stripped out - there's no holy grails left in those genres, 70 years of mining has seen to that. But he found of the stuff that was left over, the stuff that wasn't in english language was of a much higher quality - so that's what he started looking out for.
It was a different lecture to this one I saw, but this is really interesting too - he evokes the era (well, the music does - but his words do a great job of setting it in place) really well...
/\ this is the first part of a fairly long clip, so click through to youtube if you want to watch the whole thing. ska invita, littleseb - reckon you guys might be interested...
Canary Records bandcamp is here - you can listen to all the stuff he's reissued.
He was a smackhead before that.
Keeping with the early 20th century records derail, I went to an amazing lecture last year - Ian Nagoski, who runs a reissue label called Canary Records: he ended up doing what he does by digging through piles of 78s, which had already had all the canon blues, jazz & country stripped out - there's no holy grails left in those genres, 70 years of mining has seen to that. But he found of the stuff that was left over, the stuff that wasn't in english language was of a much higher quality - so that's what he started looking out for.
It was a different lecture to this one I saw, but this is really interesting too - he evokes the era (well, the music does - but his words do a great job of setting it in place) really well...
/\ this is the first part of a fairly long clip, so click through to youtube if you want to watch the whole thing. ska invita, littleseb - reckon you guys might be interested...
Canary Records bandcamp is here - you can listen to all the stuff he's reissued.
John B springs to mind, dodgy trance-d'n'b producer
You have to be on drugs (a lot!) to dance to his music and yet he's very anti them ?
