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Rhiannon Giddens Comes Home

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

CHAPTER

The Black History of String Bands and Country Music Hasn't Survived

Hank Williams taught Mabel Carter how to play the guitar and she's, that is the guitar method for so much country music. The recording industry came in in the 20s and you have people like Ralph Pierre inventing hillbilly and race records. There was a creation of mythical white ethnicity and character as direct pushback against what Henry Ford saw as the jungle music of jazz and blues. And this is also what happened with Cecil Sharp when he came over valid collecting, say, in the Appalachian Mountains.

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