Birth of Country Music

A Fertile Crescent — The Blue Ridge Plateau and the Birth of Country Music

April 23, 2022

By KINNEY RORRER— The term mountain music first appeared on phonograph records in 1933 as recorded by such country singers as Elton Britt, Ken Landon, James Brown, Jr. and the Kelly Brothers. Mountain music came …

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The Wreck of the Old 97

March 18, 2022

BY KINNEY RORRER— The Wreck Though it was referred to as “Old 97”, the fast mail train that crashed into a ravine not far from the north bank of the Dan River in Danville, Virginia …

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