u/J_Worldpeace

I was just thinking of this the other day the time period from about 1900 to 1955 (Elvis) was so explosive and nearly every part of the country growing a subculture of music. New York City had jazz. Appalachian Bluegrass, New Orleans had their own scene. Every step along the Mississippi had a different form of blues. Kansas City, Chicago, Kalamazoo…You had country towards the south and Woody Guthrie in Oklahoma. West Coast even had slack, Hawaiin, and dobro.

At this time, nearly every major city grew a record industry and a culture around their music, but not New England… or at least nothing seemed to have had stuck in the larger scope of history.

This is a New England resident speaking, by the way. I just realized the other day all we do is study other areas parts of music.

What the heck was going on north of CT, and why nothing that’s significant to the rest of American music history.