'the advertisement in the Johnson City Chronicle read .... Can You Sing Or Play Old-Time Music? ...
actual tryout for the purpose of making columbia records
The auditions were part of a search for native Appalachian-Blue Ridge Mountains musical talent. Frank Buckley Walker was a pioneer, as was Ralph Peer of Victor Records, in the art of remote recording, which was deemed more effective than bringing musicians to New York City or larger northern cities to record. They thought the unsophisticated amateurs would perform more comfortably in their accustomed surroundings. considered by music scholars as important recordings of early country music that influenced a whole generation of revivalist folk musicians of the 1950s and 1960s, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Doc Watson. ...... The Johnson City Sessions ..