'Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942' documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through to 1942, including unreleased sides. The discography includes alphabetical indexes to all song titles and musicians listed. Research is based on files and session logs from record companies and recording archives.
More than twenty years in the making, this magisterial reference documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through 1942. With primary research based on files and session logs from record companies as well as the recording archives of the Country Music Foundation, this notable work will be the first compendium to accurately document every commercial country music recording, including unreleased sides. The discography includes alphabetical indexes to all song titles and musicians listed.
"English discographer Tony Russell's magnum opus Country Music Records is a massive discography of every pre-WWII country music recording ever made. In a work more than two decades in the making, eagerly anticipated by discographers and country music scholars, Russell and the late Bob Pinson make the first comprehensive examination of every commercial country music recording session, 1921-42...Country Music Records is a model of its kind and the most important discography of vernacular American music since Blues & Gospel Records 1890-1943."
