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Online Discography, University of Wisconsin-Madison "In A Few Fateful Years, One Record Label Blew Open The Blues". Tom Cole, NPR Weekend Edition, January 31, 2015. "Paramount Records". Interview with author Amanda Petrusich on Central Time show on Wisconsin Public Radio, April 22, 2015. Paramount Records on the Internet Archive's Great 78 Project
The Paramount Plaza Walk of Fame honors artists who recorded for Paramount Records in Grafton, Wisconsin with a 'piano key'. [1] The first of a total of 44 'piano keys' is 2 feet (0.61 m) wide by 7 feet (2.1 m) long and made of black granite to resemble a keyboard. Annually, additional keys – placed by the Village of Grafton – will be ...
Speir placed blues performers with various record labels, including Paramount Records. [8] On the strength of this audition, James traveled to Grafton, Wisconsin, to record for Paramount. [8] His 1931 records are considered idiosyncratic among prewar blues recordings and formed the basis of his reputation as a musician.
This is the 213th Mississippi Blues Trail marker, dedicated on September 23, 2023 Oxford & Lafayette County Blues Oxford: Papa Lightfoot: Natchez: Paramount Records: Grafton, Wisconsin: Paramount Records & F.W. Boerner Company Port Washington, Wisconsin: Parchman Blues Parchman: Peavey Electronics: Meridian: Peavine Boyle: Pensacola Blues ...
The musicians travelled to the Paramount recording studio in Grafton, Wisconsin, and recorded at least twenty-eight titles, six of them by Holmes and issued under the name King Solomon Hill. It has been speculated that the recording session occurred about January 1932, but Roberta Allums stated that it was in the spring.
Willie Lee Brown (1899 [2] or August 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952) [3] was an American blues guitar player and vocalist.He performed and recorded with other blues musicians, including Son House and Charlie Patton, and influenced Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.
Grafton is located at (43.317904, −87.954113 According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 5.10 square miles (13.21 km 2), of which 5.06 square miles (13.11 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) is water. [25]
Orkney Blues Festival 2005 Stromness, Scotland Bluesroute Helmond 2011 Helmond, Netherlands [27] Holland International Blues Festival 2016 Grolloo, Netherlands [28] National Jazz and Blues Festival: 1961: London, England Focsani Blues Festival 2016 Focșani, Romania: Blues Peer (Belgium Rythmn 'n' Blues) 1986: Peer, Belgium: American Folk Blues ...