Recognition

The people and music associated with the Nassau Street sessions have been recognized for contributions to American music history.

Selected Awards

Ralph Peer
Country Music Hall of Fame (1984)
Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame (1993)
Georgia Music Hall of Fame (2001)
Recording Academy (Grammy) Trustees Award (2017)

Fiddlin’ John Carson
Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame (1982)
Georgia Music Hall of Fame (1984)
America’s Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame (1987)
North American Country Music Association International Hall of Fame (1999)

Polk Brockman
Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame (1986)

“The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane”
Grammy Music Hall of Fame (1998)

Selected Publications

• Archie Green, Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).
• Arnold Shaw, Black Popular Music in America: From the Spirituals, Minstrels, and Ragtime to Soul, Disco, and Hip-Hop. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1986)
• Barry Mazor, Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music. (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2016).
• Bernard MacMahon, Allison McGourty, and Elijah Wald, American Epic: The First Time America Heard Itself. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017)
• Bill Malone, Country Music USA (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968).
• Gene Wiggins and Norm Cohen, Fiddlin’ Georgia Crazy: Fiddlin’ John Carson, His Real World, and the World of His Songs. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987).
• John A. Burrison, “Fiddlers in the Alley: Atlanta as an Early Country Music Center,” Atlanta Historical Bulletin v.21 n.2 (1977): 59-87.
• Patrick Huber, Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
• Paul Kingsbury and Alanna Nash. 2006. Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music in America. (New York: DK Publishing, 2006).
• Paul Oliver, Barrelhouse Blues: Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues. (New York: Basic Books, 2009).
• Robert Dixon and John Godrich, Recording the Blues. (London: Studio Vista, 1970).
• Steve Goodson, Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007).
• Tony Russell, Blacks, Whites and Blues. (London: Studio Vista, 1970).
• Wayne Daniel, Pickin’ on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001).
• William Howland Kenney, Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
• Zell Miller, They Heard Georgia Singing. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1996).

Selected Reissues and Compilations

• Atlanta, GA. Gospel: 1923-1931. Document Records, 1996.
• Female Blues Singers. Volume 7: G/H. Document Records, 1996.
• Fiddlin’ John Carson – Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order. Volume 1: c. 14 June 1923–April 1924. Document Records, 1997.
• Jazz from Atlanta: 1923-1929. Timeless Records, 1997.
• Lucille Bogan ‎(Bessie Jackson) – Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order. Volume 1: June 1923–March 1930. Document Records, 1993.
• The Earliest Negro Vocal Groups. Volume 5: 1911-1926. Document Records, 1998.
• The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster’s Gonna Crow. Rounder Records, 1973.
• Warner’s Seven Aces. Harlequin, 1985.