Joel Walker Sweeney AMERICA'S NATIIONAL INSTRUMENT 5 String Banjo 7" Vinyl 45 EP
Title: Famous Artists Present The 5 String Banjo (America’s
National Instrument)
Label: Americana Recording Company B-771
Artists: 1. Fred J. Bacon - Massa's In The
Cold Cold Ground
2. Frank Bradbury- Dance Of The Hours
3. Alexander Magee- Jolly Darkies
4. Ted Shawnee - Dill Pickles
Condition: Used –VG+ Vinyl / Cover VG Clear tape on top & bottom cover with no markings, bends or rips-
Summary: The 1st track by Fred J. Bacon is a re recording of the 1915 (time 3:47) recording from the 10" EDISON 78 "Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground."
According to author Bob Carlin’s 2007 illustrated Paperback, The Birth of The Banjo: Joel
Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrels. "Joel Walker Sweeney was in essence, the Elvis Presley Of The 1840’s.” Sweeney was an early blackface minstrel
performer and is the earliest known person to have played the banjo on stage.
