Sweet Sounds: Arkansas Music

From the first, Arkansas music mattered.
Arkansas music - Old State House Museum
Howlin' Wolf © Patterson & Barnes, 2001
You see it in fragments of cane flutes, whistles older than Columbus. The oldest image of an Arkansas musician may be a man carrying a rattle on a Quapaw buffalo robe; the oldest recorded Arkansas sound may be a 1928 string band from the Ozarks. There's a crazy quilt variety—ballad singers side by side with bluesmen, rockers in outrageous Spandex with pistol-toting cowgirls, zoot-suited jazzmen next to grave-faced gospel quartets. Listen to the Arkansas music—let it "send you back to Arkansas."
For resources about Arkansas Music and this exhibit visit http://www.oldstatehouse.com/exhibits/archive/sweet_sounds.asp

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[puresoulg]

Thanks This is a start for me trying to figure out My Home AK's Music Heritage.

New Orleans Have their own sound What's Our Sound Arkansas Sound ?

[drMINDdamage]

Awesome! Very good!