Jul 12, 2019
Reflected Glory: The Birth of Country Music journalism, 1930s-50s
Reflected Glory: The Birth of Country Music journalism, 1930s-50s
Part Three: I Got Me an Old Guitar
WLS Stand-By!
Here’s a magazine title that radiates urgency. Named for the first radio station to broadcast country music, the birth of WLS Stand-By! in 1935 marked the birth of country music journalism. Just as Down Beat marked the birth of the jazz press the year before.
The newsprint weekly and its namesake – the amusingly generic WLS…
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