One-of-a-king acetate disc recording by Sidney Louie "Hardrock" Gunter (1925-2013), Feburary 12, 1948, Birmingham, Alabama. A popular country entertainer on Birmingham radio and television, Hardrock Gunter cut his first commercial records for the…
Photo postcard featuring Shorty Ginn, the “One-Man, Ten-Piece Band,” Decatur, Alabama, c. 1960s.
A native of Belmont, Mississippi, Ginn performed in and out of Alabama and Mississippi from the 1940s into at least the 1960s. By 1949, he had…