Listen to the 'earliest known country song' ever recorded | BBC Global

A wax cylinder containing the oldest recorded country song was discovered in Pennsylvania.

The track 'Thompson's Old Gray Mule' was recorded in 1891 and sung by Louis Vasnier, a black man from New Orleans.

Now a specialty music label, Archeophone Records, has restored and released the record.

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