Allen Lowe never skimps on details. As a music historian, his output includes 1998’s American Pop - From Minstrel to Mojo: On Record 1893-1956, a 282-page book that was released with a companion set of no less than nine CDs crammed full of early American popular music. That Devilin’ Tune: A Jazz History 1900-1950 (2006) and Really the Blues? A Blues History 1893-1959 (2010) performed the same encyclopedic task for both of those genres, each containing a whopping 36 discs.
The author/musician has been no slouch in more recent times either. In 2020 he self-published . (Volume 2 dropped the following year.) True to form, the companion piece to this 352-page tome is a box with 30 discs of music, corresponding to the commentary in its pages. The overlapping origins of country, blues, and early jazz are brought fully into the light, making connections
