Satan Is Busy In Knoxville: Revisiting The Knoxville Sessions 1929-1930 (CD)

Release Date: 02/03/23-Released in January 2023, 'Satan Is Busy In Knoxville: Revisiting The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930' distills onto a single CD the major recordings and the groundbreaking research found on Bear Family Records®' Grammy Award-nominated 4-CD box set, 'The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930: Knox County Stomp' (BCD 16097).-27 essential recordings from the historically significant location sessions conducted during 1929 and 1930 by the Brunswick/Vocalion labels in Knoxville, Tennessee.-Influential releases of 'hillbilly music' as well as landmark recordings of Black Appalachian music.-New essays by Jack Neely and James 'Sparky' Rucker in which those writers set the Knoxville sessions into historical context.-Detailed track-by-track notes by Grammy Award-nominated writer Ted Olson, who produced this compilation.-State-of-the-art sound engineering, these recordings - nearly a century old but painstakingly remastered in 2022 by Marcus Heumann - sound warm and clear.-Memorabl