![]() Bristol calls itself “The Birthplace of Country Music”–but it’s not. Target: Bristol, which may be in Virginia and may be in Tennessee, depending upon where you happen to be standing at the time. Let me begin at something approximating the beginning. As I traveled, I caught up along the way, learned a lot, listened to a lot of wonderful music, figured out some of the history, and met some wonderful people along the way. And I would have paid more attention to Barry Mazor’s book, Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music, sent to me for review in 2015. Had I known, I would have first picked up Joe Wilson’s excellent and truly helpful book, A Guide to the Crooked Road: Virginia’s Music Heritage Trail. I decided to go, and see what The Crooked Road was all about. About two months ago, I found it again, but this time, I decided do more than read and file the article in my “someday” folder. ![]() A little more than ten years ago, I read an article about music in Southwestern Virginia. ![]()
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