Henry Whitter, a Virginia textile worker, traveled to New York uninvited in March 1923, and recorded lonesome road blues and >the wreck on the southern old 97< for Okeh Records.

Many people were inspired to become performers because they were convinced they could do a better job than Whitter.

...nachdem er es zuvor vergeblich als Solist versucht hatte, machte er Aufnahmen mit den Virginia Breakdowners. Er spielte zwar viele Instrumente, aber äusserst unausgegoren, ja fehlerhaft. Auch seine Stimme führte er ungeschickt und planlos. (Zitat aus Wolfgang Tilgner: Psalmen, Pop und Punk)

He later made some important recordings with the blind fiddler G.B.Grayson for the Victor Company.

Also with Kelly Harrell.

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