路易斯·瓦斯尼尔（Louis J Vasnier Jr.）录制了历史上的第一首乡村歌曲

在早期音频爱好者的世界中，“独角兽”是一部知名的音频，但从未发现过，但从未被发现。

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.

第一首录制的乡村歌曲是“汤普森的旧灰m子”，该歌曲由黑人歌手和演艺人员路易斯·J·瓦斯尼尔（Louis J Vasnier Jr.这首歌是由托马斯·P·韦斯特多夫（Thomas P Westendorf）于1884年创作的，是农民脾气暴躁的m子的嬉戏观点。这也是美国音乐史上的一个引人入胜的脚注，在乡村音乐名人堂在2000年引起其首位黑人表演者Charley Pride之前，将一位黑人歌手放在乡村音乐的最前沿。

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.

随着故事的发展，宾夕法尼亚州煤炭国家拍卖会上的收藏家约翰·莱文（John Levin）以100美元的价格抢购了一盒原始的气缸。其中有一颗宝石：1890年代的路易斯安那州留声机圆柱体，该圆柱体在2023年的拍卖会上以650美元的价格售出。

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.

留声机是由美国实业家托马斯·爱迪生（Thomas Edison）发明的，将新兴的声音录音技术推向了下一步至关重要的下一步，可以为播放音频捕获的能力提供。通过旋转缸通过针传输声波，这是一个新的留声机机器时代突然开始在美国主要城市弹出，那里有一个带有备用镍的路人可以听到一个笑话的笑话，杂耍的笑话，杂耍杂志，或者 - 预计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.

新奥尔良没有什么不同。 Louisiana Phorograph Co发现了一个机会来利用对老虎机操作的音频设备日益增长的兴趣，因此开始租赁硬币机器并认真地制造新的气缸。它拥有该国最有利可图的公共球员，在1891年夏天，运河和夏普特街的拐角处的药店原始jukebox在三个月内收入超过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.

该公司整理的小说唱片中有黑人歌手和工人阶级的演艺人员路易斯·J·瓦斯尼尔（Louis J Vasnier Jr），他于1858年出生于一个以前是奴隶的父亲。瓦斯尼尔（Vasnier）以漫画灵巧和对多种方言的精通（包括荷兰语，爱尔兰语和法国人）的精通而赢得了声誉，这些方言与该市的殖民遗产交谈。营销广告还以虚构的传教士“布鲁斯·拉斯穆斯（Brudder Rasmus）”为幌子，他的模仿讲道吹嘘，这种杂耍风格都在嘲笑南方黑色的黑色宗教讲台演讲的经验，同时也扮演当天的刻板印象。事实证明，他们成功地记录了他的许多喜剧片，包括“亚当，夏娃和德·温特苹果”，在当时流行的夸张的黑人情感中传达了。

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.

瓦斯尼尔（Vasnier）伴随着一把钢琴，还唱了托马斯·P·韦斯特多夫（Thomas P Westendorf）的1884年作品《汤普森的旧灰m子》（Thompson's Old Gray Mule），这是1891年录制的原始国家。瓦斯尼尔（Vasnier）以这首歌的标题和负责的唱片公司（Plothroghth Company and The Polyograph Company）打开了剪辑，并在Polayograph Company and lyric丢失了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.

考验中的新的45 rpm唱片（致力于恢复和发行早期录音），这两部作品是瓦斯尼尔（Vasnier）的喜剧传教士在b面上进行的。这是一个很小但重要的发行版，因为它标志着Vasnier的任何音乐首次获得了商业上的可用性。