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Asheville Sessions Videos

OKeh Record’s 1925 Asheville Sessions held at the Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville, NC, was an important event in the birth of American Music. This event preceded the famous Bristol Sessions by 2 years, and planted the seed for that seminal event in country music.

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Asheville Sessions, some of the recordings were remastered and released on Rivermont Records “Music from the Land of the Sky: the 1925 Asheville Sessions.”  The producers of The 1925 Asheville Sessions album believe this project underscores that if Bristol was “the Big Bang of Country Music,” then Asheville “lit the fuse.”

Following are several videos related to this project.

Interview with Wayne Martin
Wayne Martin, Founder and former Executive Director of the NC Arts Foundation, was one of the participants in the transfer session to digitize 78 rpm records from the Asheville sessions. T

Interview with Kinney Rorrer
Kinney Rorrer is Music Historian, longtime host of the “Back to the Blue Ridge” radio show, and was one of the participants in the transfer session to digitize 78 rpm records from the Asheville sessions.

Interview with Bryan Wright
Bryan Wright, Founder of Rivermont Records, was one of the participants in the  transfer session to digitize 78 rpm records from the Asheville sessions.

Interview with Marshall Wyatt
Marshall Wyatt, founder of Old Hat Records, was one of the participants in the transfer session to digitize 78 rpm records from the Asheville sessions.