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In the 1920s, as radio took over the pop music business, record companies were forced to leave their studios ...

Travel to 1920s as the Carter Family and the Memphis Jug Band make their first records.

Travel the country in search of unknown 1920s artists who transformed American music.

Joseph Kekuku and the origin of the steel guitar

Musician Charlie Musselwhite remembers Memphis in the past

Bill Williamson recalls the 1920’s Coal Miners strike in Logan, West Virginia