Are you a country music fan, or a blues, folk, jazz, or rock
fan? Better make that "Are you a music fan?"
This is a true story of man - a real pioneer - who was driven to
capture the music that came to form the basis of today's popular
music. Art Satherley is referred to in many a biographies of stars
from yesteryear.
He was born in 1889 in Bristol, England. This Bristolian
travelled the southern states of America recording real American
music. He said it was like the music from home. No place was too
far or too distant for him to take his primitive recording
equipment. He used school halls log cabins, hotels, anywhere - even
a funeral parlour - as locations to record. Blues artists such as
Ma Rainy, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and W. C. Handy were on his
recording log, this list could be a hundred names long. Then, there
were the hillbilly, down-home country folk, another long list of
now legendary names, ranging from Gene Autry to Roy Acuff to Marty
Robbins, that Art Satherley was responsible for.
Arthur worked for the great inventor Thomas Edison at the
Wisconsin Chair ompany before being installed as recording manager
at the company's record-pressing plant called the New York
Recording Laboratory, which included Paramount records as one of
its labels. Uncle Art Satherley eventually became vice president of
Columbia Records, retiring in 1952, and the history and development
of the recording industry are intertwined with Art's captivating
professional journey
Uncle Art's story is told in it's entirety for the first time in
Uncle Art by a fellow Bristolian and musician Alan John Britton.
Britton includes his own background and the discovery of this
fascinating story. It includes Arthur's childhood and schooling and
some history of Bristol and the important role that the city's port
played in the movement of settlers and trade to the New World.
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