Ragtime was so popular in Tin Pan Alley that it
eventually replaced the ballad as its most
marketable song product.
The Blues
invaded Tin Pan Alley, brought there by W.C. Handy, who
composed and published the first commercial
blues. Handy's "St.
Louis
Blues" would become one of the most
recorded blues songs of the 20th Century.
Guitarist T-Bone Walker was born in 1910 in Linden,
Texas.
Singer, songwriter, guitarist,
harmonica player, bandleader Howlin'
Wolf (Chester Arthur Burnett) was born in
Mississippi.
On June 17, 1910, Red
Foley AKA 'Mr. Country Music' was born in
Blue Lick, Kentucky, U.S.
Record producer John
Hammond was born in New York City on
December 15, 1910
The
Father of Bluegrass, Bill
Monroe was born in Rosine, Kentucky.
Lightnin'
Hopkins was born on March 15, 1912 in
Centerville, Texas.
August 12, 1912 - Songwriter and
performer Rex
Griffin was born in Gadsden, Alabama.
Smiley
Lewis was born in DeQuincy, Louisiana on
July 5, 1913.
Pinetop
Perkins was born in Belzoni, Mississippi.
Madison
County, Tennessee: Sonny
Boy Williamson I was born on March 30,
1914.
Sonny
Boy Williamson II was born in Glendora,
Mississippi.
Birmingham,
Alabama, May 22, 1914, Sun Ra
lands on Earth
from Saturn.
Muddy
Waters (McKinley Morganfield) was born in
rural Mississippi.
March
20, 1915 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe was born in
Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
Billie
Holiday was born on April 7, 1915.
Hound
Dog Taylor Born April 12, 1915 in Natchez,
Mississippi.
Vicksburg, Mississippi,
1915,
Willie
Dixon was born.
1915 -
Alan Lomax
was born in Austin, Texas. In the early 1930s,
Alan Lomax and his father, folklorist John A.
Lomax, developed the Library of Congress’ Archive
of American Folksong.
Storyville
was shut down during World War I, sending the
Jazz musicians up the Mississippi river in
search of employment and spreading Jazz to
cities on the river and to Chicago and New York.
1917 - The Original Dixieland Jazz
Band made the first jazz recording
in New York City.
"James
Reese Europe is cited in books about
ragtime and early jazz as the most respected
black bandleader of the 'teens', but he should
also be recognized among World War I historians
because of his musical compositions inspired by
wartime experiences, and the achievements of his
band known as the 369th U.S. Infantry "Hell
Fighters" Band." ---- "Europe is credited with bringing
ragtime out of the bordellos and juke joints
into mainstream society and elevating
African American music into an accepted art
form."
