Paramount Records: Where Charlie Patton met the Shmenge Brothers (Episode 30)

From 1917 to 1932 a record label in Grafton, Wisconsin may have captured more important American recordings than any other label or person before or since. Not a single one of those recordings feature the accordion or performers wearing lederhosen. Episode 30 of Highway Hi-Fi focuses on Paramount Records, a chair manufacturing company, and blues recording giant. Further reading: THE BALLAD OF GEESHIE AND ELVIE from New York Times Magazine: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/13/magazine/blues.html Paramount Records: The Label Inadvertently Crucial To The Blues http://wlrn.org/post/paramount-records-label-inadvertently-crucial-blues New York Times: They’ve Got Those Old, Hard-to-Find Blues https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/arts/music/12petr.html Jack White Rescues Paramount Records [video from CBS This Morning] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVMzDqAMZI   Subscribe to Highway Hi-Fi: iTunes | Stitcher | TuneIn | PocketCasts | Overcast | Google Play  Twitter | Facebook | Spotify   

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