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Earl Johnson

Through the 1920s and ’30s, the condition of Georgia created a number of the wildest documents in old-time or “hillbilly” music. Weighed against the relatively constant, delicate, and sedate recordings by such organizations as Charlie Poole’s NEW YORK Ramblers, the Georgia string rings, described by flamboyant fiddlers like Gid Tanner, …

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