paramount records
so i've been just reading a ton about the old furniture manufacturing plant up in grafton that was coaxed by brown graduate jay mayo williams to form paramount records, and try to find a market selling to chicago's ample blacks migrating up from the delta at the time. the man pretty much ran the project but wasn't allowed to be an employee regardless.
there's all kinds of great photos i'd love to share, but they're very mindful of copyright at paramountshome.org, which has all kinds of other great information too.
the furniture plant used to sit next to the milwaukee river in grafton, right down the street from lime kiln park, a challenging 9 hole discgolf course. little did i know, there were times i was searching for my disc and already had laid eyes upriver at the site (where a private house has been built over the foundation, but the old water powerwheel is still visible). how kickass would it be to have a discgolf tourney at that park where the free disc given away has a stamp on it to look like an old paramount record? i'll have to make that happen.
further north upriver from that spot is downtown grafton, where one of the oldest buildings in town has been converted to a resteraunt themed after the record company. on my way home from discing outdoors more north midsunday, i stopped by tho i suspected the place too classy for my being outdoors. turns out, tho they look classy, they don't stop you (nice), and to my COMPLETE surprise, i accidentally ran into a new favorite meal in milwaukee. i have never had chocolate chip pancakes so fluffy! mmmmmmm~~ so good~
i suspect not everyone's interested enough to go reading long pdfs about this stuff, but i'll share the most vicariously interesting link, an hour long documentary on delta blues by famed blues musicologist alan lomax: >The Land Where the Blues Began. and if you don't have the attention span for THAT, here's my favorite snippet from the above:
napoleon strickland demonstrates a diddley-bow. i'd heard a bunch of blues heroes mention how they'd started by nailing a string between to a post on their porch (which is shown at the end of another clip of the documentary here) but i'd never heard of sliding it with a cup. i can totally hear the origins of a lot of allman brothers riffs in this video.
there's all kinds of great photos i'd love to share, but they're very mindful of copyright at paramountshome.org, which has all kinds of other great information too.
the furniture plant used to sit next to the milwaukee river in grafton, right down the street from lime kiln park, a challenging 9 hole discgolf course. little did i know, there were times i was searching for my disc and already had laid eyes upriver at the site (where a private house has been built over the foundation, but the old water powerwheel is still visible). how kickass would it be to have a discgolf tourney at that park where the free disc given away has a stamp on it to look like an old paramount record? i'll have to make that happen.
further north upriver from that spot is downtown grafton, where one of the oldest buildings in town has been converted to a resteraunt themed after the record company. on my way home from discing outdoors more north midsunday, i stopped by tho i suspected the place too classy for my being outdoors. turns out, tho they look classy, they don't stop you (nice), and to my COMPLETE surprise, i accidentally ran into a new favorite meal in milwaukee. i have never had chocolate chip pancakes so fluffy! mmmmmmm~~ so good~
i suspect not everyone's interested enough to go reading long pdfs about this stuff, but i'll share the most vicariously interesting link, an hour long documentary on delta blues by famed blues musicologist alan lomax: >The Land Where the Blues Began. and if you don't have the attention span for THAT, here's my favorite snippet from the above:
napoleon strickland demonstrates a diddley-bow. i'd heard a bunch of blues heroes mention how they'd started by nailing a string between to a post on their porch (which is shown at the end of another clip of the documentary here) but i'd never heard of sliding it with a cup. i can totally hear the origins of a lot of allman brothers riffs in this video.
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