路易斯·瓦斯尼爾（Louis J Vasnier Jr.）錄製了歷史上的第一首鄉村歌曲

在早期音頻愛好者的世界中，“獨角獸”是一部知名的音頻，但從未發現過，但從未被發現。

The first recorded country song was "Thompson's Old Gray Mule," which was recorded in 1891 by Black singer and entertainer Louis J Vasnier Jr. for the Louisiana Phonograph Co in New Orleans. The song, which was written by Thomas P Westendorf in 1884, is a playful take on a farmer's short-tempered mule. It's also a fascinating footnote in the music history of the US, placing a Black singer on the cutting edge of country music some 60 years before the Country Music Hall of Fame inducted its first Black performer, Charley Pride, in 2000.

第一首錄製的鄉村歌曲是“湯普森的舊灰m子”，該歌曲由黑人歌手和演藝人員路易斯·J·瓦斯尼爾（Louis J Vasnier Jr.這首歌是由托馬斯·P·韋斯特多夫（Thomas P Westendorf）於1884年創作的，是農民脾氣暴躁的m子的嬉戲觀點。這也是美國音樂史上的一個引人入勝的腳註，在鄉村音樂名人堂在2000年引起其首位黑人表演者Charley Pride之前，將一位黑人歌手放在鄉村音樂的最前沿。

As the story goes, a box of primitive cylinders was snapped up for $100 by a collector, John Levin, at a Pennsylvania coal country auction. Among them was a gem: a Louisiana Phonograph cylinder from the 1890s, which sold for $650 at auction in 2023.

隨著故事的發展，賓夕法尼亞州煤炭國家拍賣會上的收藏家約翰·萊文（John Levin）以100美元的價格搶購了一盒原始的氣缸。其中有一顆寶石：1890年代的路易斯安那州留聲機圓柱體，該圓柱體在2023年的拍賣會上以650美元的價格售出。

Invented by American industrialist Thomas Edison in 1877, the phonograph pushed the emerging sound recording technology to a crucial next step in affording one the ability to playback the audio captured. Transmitting soundwaves through a needle via a spinning cylinder, a new era of phonograph machines suddenly began springing up in major US cities where a passerby with a spare nickel could hear a bawdy joke, a vaudeville number, or—in anticipation of the jukebox—a song of the day.

留聲機是由美國實業家托馬斯·愛迪生（Thomas Edison）發明的，將新興的聲音錄音技術推向了下一步至關重要的下一步，可以為播放音頻捕獲的能力提供。通過旋轉缸通過針傳輸聲波，這是一個新的留聲機機器時代突然開始在美國主要城市彈出，那裡有一個帶有備用鎳的路人可以聽到一個笑話的笑話，雜耍的笑話，雜耍雜誌，或者 - 預計Jukebox是一首歌。

New Orleans was no different. Spotting an opportunity to capitalise on the growing interest in slot-operated audio devices, the Louisiana Phonograph Co began leasing coin-op machines and manufacturing new cylinders in earnest. It boasted the most profitable public player in the country, with the Canal and Chartres Street’s corner drugstore proto-jukebox earning over $1,400 across three months in the summer of 1891.

新奧爾良沒有什麼不同。 Louisiana Phorograph Co發現了一個機會來利用對老虎機操作的音頻設備日益增長的興趣，因此開始租賃硬幣機器並認真地製造新的氣缸。它擁有該國最有利可圖的公共球員，在1891年夏天，運河和夏普特街的拐角處的藥店原始jukebox在三個月內收入超過1,400美元。

Among the novel recordings collated by the firm was the Black singer and working-class entertainer Louis J Vasnier Jr, who was born in 1858 to a father who was formerly a slave. Vasnier earned a reputation with his comic dexterity and mastery of multiple dialects—including Dutch, Irish, and French, which spoke to the city’s colonial heritage. The marketing advertisement also boasted his parody sermons in the guise of fictional preacher ‘Brudder Rasmus’, a style of vaudeville both poking fun at the Southern Black experience of religious pulpit oratory while also playing to the stereotypes of the day. They proved successful, with Louisiana Phonograph Co documenting many of his comedy bits, including 'Adam and Eve and de Winter Apple', delivered in the exaggerated Black affectation popular at the time.

該公司整理的小說唱片中有黑人歌手和工人階級的演藝人員路易斯·J·瓦斯尼爾（Louis J Vasnier Jr），他於1858年出生於一個以前是奴隸的父親。瓦斯尼爾（Vasnier）以漫畫靈巧和對多種方言的精通（包括荷蘭語，愛爾蘭語和法國人）的精通而贏得了聲譽，這些方言與該市的殖民遺產交談。營銷廣告還以虛構的傳教士“布魯斯·拉斯穆斯（Brudder Rasmus）”為幌子，他的模仿講道吹噓，這種雜耍風格都在嘲笑南方黑色的黑色宗教講台演講的經驗，同時也扮演當天的刻板印象。事實證明，他們成功地記錄了他的許多喜劇片，包括“亞當，夏娃和德·溫特蘋果”，在當時流行的誇張的黑人情感中傳達了。

Accompanied with a piano over his usual banjo, Vasnier also sang Thomas P Westendorf’s 1884 piece 'Thompson's Old Gray Mule', a primitive slice of country recorded in 1891. Vasnier opens the cut with the song’s title and the phonograph company responsible, and the lyric is lost on the stirrings of the piano chord progression.

瓦斯尼爾（Vasnier）伴隨著一把鋼琴，還唱了托馬斯·P·韋斯特多夫（Thomas P Westendorf）的1884年作品《湯普森的舊灰m子》（Thompson's Old Gray Mule），這是1891年錄製的原始國家。瓦斯尼爾（Vasnier）以這首歌的標題和負責的唱片公司（Plothroghth Company and The Polyograph Company）打開了剪輯，並在Polayograph Company and lyric丟失了Piano Chord progression of Piano Chord contression。

A new 45-rpm record from Archeophone—a label dedicated to restoring and issuing early recordings—collects the two pieces, with Vasnier’s comedy preacher act on the B-side. It's a small but significant release, as it marks the first time that any music by Vasnier has been made commercially available.

考驗中的新的45 rpm唱片（致力於恢復和發行早期錄音），這兩部作品是瓦斯尼爾（Vasnier）的喜劇傳教士在b面上進行的。這是一個很小但重要的發行版，因為它標誌著Vasnier的任何音樂首次獲得了商業上的可用性。