Fascinating site! 

Here's another neat site for early recordings.  

  http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

Lot of old minstrel tunes, the pop music of the day, was recorded on cylinders.

 

Thanks Rob! I couldn't remember where I found it on the Web.

Here it is from archive.com

https://archive.org/details/DonRichardson-ArkansasTraveler1916

You might be able to embed an mp3 into a post here...in the texbox, click on the video-y looking icon on the right (right before the smiley icon) and explore that.

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Those irritated by grain of sand best avoid beach.
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I understand Lisa, I'm so sorry ,I was trying to share that recording from my "archives" and I wasn't sure how.

Hi Charles, you can link to that recording here in a discussion if it resides someplace else online, but you can't upload the recording to your member audio clips- because all audio/video clips uploaded to the music and video site sections have to feature yourself playing or performing...see the site rules.  Had to remove the recording.  Very sorry! 

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Those irritated by grain of sand best avoid beach.
-Strumelia proverb c.1990

I was looking around my digital music library when I saw this sitting in a dusty corner. The tune is "Arkansas Traveler" by Don Richardson , recorded in 1916. I believe it was one of the first recordings of what was then called " Country Music" 

updated by @charles-thomas: 01/13/19 05:09:18PM