The Johnson City Sessions were a series of recording auditions conducted in Johnson City, Tennessee, in 1928 and 1929 by Frank Buckley Walker, head of the Columbia Records “hillbilly” recordings division.
Read more about Johnson City Sessions: Background, Recordings
Famous quotes containing the words johnson and/or city:
“A woman preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“I don’t like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meaner than I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)