First African-American blues recording MAMIE SMITH OKEH 4113 That Thing Called Love / You Can't Keep A Good Man Down (1920) Text goes here ya know.

First African-American blues recording

MAMIE SMITH OKEH 4113 That Thing Called Love / You Can't Keep A Good Man Down (1920)

First country music record

VICTOR 18956 Henry C. Gilliland, A. C. (Eck) Robertson (1922)

First female country musicians recorded

SAMANTHA BUMGARNER AND EVA DAVIS COLUMBIA 167-D Cindy In The Meadows / John Hardy (1924)

Second female country musician recorded

OKEH 40213 Roba Stanley - William Patterson (1925)

First country music records performed by a working string band (full catalogue)

VICTOR 19434 Fiddlin' Powers and Family Ida Red / Old Joe Clark (1924)

VICTOR 19448 Fiddlin' Powers and Family The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane / Sour Wood Mountains (1924)

VICTOR 19449 Fiddlin' Powers and Family Cripple Creek / Sugar In The Gourd (1924)

VICTOR 19450 Fiddlin' Powers and Family Callahan's Reel / Patty On The Turnpike (1924)

Bristol Sessions recordings: the "Big Bang" of modern country music

ALFRED G. KARNES VICTOR 20840 I Am Bound For The Promised Land / Where We'll Never Grow Old (1927)

WEST VIRGINIA COON HUNTERS VICTOR 20862 Greasy String / Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy (1927)

JIMMIE RODGERS VICTOR 20864 Sleep Baby Sleep / The Soldier's Sweetheart (1927)

CARTER FAMILY VICTOR 21074 Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow / Little Log Cabin By The Sea (1928)

First recording and record by country music's first star soloist

JIMMIE RODGERS VICTOR 20864 Sleep Baby Sleep / The Soldier's Sweetheart (1927)

First track cut by country music's first star band

CARTER FAMILY VICTOR 21074 Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow / Little Log Cabin By The Sea (1928)

CAB CALLOWAY AND HIS ORCHESTRA BRUNSWICK 6074 Minnie The Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song) / Doin' The Rumba (1931)

First jazz record to sell a million copies

COON CREEK GIRLS VOCALION 00413 Coon Creek Girls (1938)

First successful all-woman country band

BILL MONROE AND HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS COLUMBIA 20595 Along About Daybreak / Heavy Traffic Ahead (1949)

First track cut by the first bluegrass band