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Preachin' the Holy Blues: Field Recordings from Dallas, Texas (1927), Hour 1
Join as we get into our time machine, and journey back to Dallas, December 1927. That was when Columbia Records became the first major label to make extensive recordings there — on Washington Phillips, Blind Willie Johnson, Coley Jones, Lillian Glinn, and more. It’s blues and gospel from Dallas, Texas, on this episode of Blues Unlimited.
Pictured: Texas Alexander, largely forgotten today, was such a popular seller that he was one of the few artists to collect royalties from the sale of his records.