Now one of the titans of the recording industry, the earliest recordings of Columbia Records show just how far we've come in just over 100 years.

Paul Slade, the author of 2021’s “Black Swan Blues: The Hard Rise and Brutal Fall of America’s First Black-Owned Record Label,” said Pace relied on his charisma and vast network to help ...

A small record label is reissuing what it calls the first country record. The music was first released in 1891 on a wax cylinder. And the singer on the album was a Black man from New Orleans.