Fiddlin' John Carson (March 23, 1868–December 11, 1949) was an early country music musician. March 23 is the 82nd day of the year (83rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Media:Example. ... December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...

The music of Fiddlin' John Carson from Fannin County, Georgia, was the first of what we know today as "country music" to be broadcast by radio and recorded for phonograph. He and his daughter, Rosa Lee, who was known as "Moonshine Kate," were the first stars despite the fact that little of the fame and none of the fortunes produced in the country music industry ever were theirs. Fannin County is a county located in the state of Georgia. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Edison cylinder phonograph ca. ...

Carson was fifty-four years old, had won the Georgia Fiddlin' Championship seven times, and had a colorful reputation as a traveling performer who made a living playing and "passing the hat" when he was not working in the cotton mill, painting houses, or making moonshine when he walked into the "studios" of the brand new radio station WSB started by the Atlanta Journal. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Shine Road The name tells the history of this back road in Hemingway, South Carolina Revenue men at the site of moonshine stills, Kentucky, 1911 or before Moonshine (sometimes known as Poitín, mooney, moon, creek water, hooch, Portuguese grape juice, white lightning, and many others) is a common slang... WSB is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below: The callsign of three broadcast stations in Atlanta: WSB AM, 750kHz WSB-TV, 2, DTV 39 WSB-FM, 98. ... The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the only major daily newspaper of Atlanta and metro Atlanta. ...

When he announced that he would "like to have a try at the newfangled contraption," Lambdin Kay obliged him. His only pay being a snort of the engineer's whiskey, Carson performed "Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane."

The Journal reported that Carson's fame spread "to every corner of the United States were WSB was heard." His popularity inspired Polk Brockman, an Atlanta furniture dealer who had been successful in developing and merchandising "race" records for the black market for OKeh records, to persuade OKeh president Ralph Peer to bring his recording equipment to Atlanta to record Fiddlin' John. Okeh Records began as an independent record label based in the United States of America in 1918; from the late 1920s on was a subsidiary of Columbia Records. ...

On June 14, 1923, in a vacant building on Nassau Street in Atlanta, Georgia, Carson cut two sides, "Little Old Log Cabin" and "The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster's going to Crow." Peer announced them "pluperful awful" but agreed to press five hundred on a blank label for Brockman's personal use. 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ...

With Fiddlin' John hawking them from the stage of the next Fiddler's convention, Brockman promptly sold every disc. Peer immediately rushed into a major pressing on the OKeh label and invited Carson to New York to record twelve more sides. He died in Atlanta, Georgia on December 11, 1949. Hotlanta redirects here. ... December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...

External links

• Biography
• From the Georgia Encyclopedia site
• All Music Guide
• Fiddling Around
• Youtube video