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  • The first recorded blues vocal is 100 years old today

    The first recorded blues vocal is 100 years old today

    ByPaul Merry October 2, 2014February 21, 2023

    I started this year banging on about 2014 being the 100th anniversary of the first ever recorded blues, W.C. Handy’s brassy instrumental, “The Memphis Blues”, cut in New York on 15 July 1914, by the Victor label’s house band. These days, it sounds more like old New Orleans jazz than blues, but old New Orleans jass back in 1914…

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