Knoxville Sessions

What Was Knoxville—and American Culture—Like When the St. James Hotel Sessions Were Recorded in 1929 and 1930?
May 4, 2016

When Dick Voynow, who’d once been the piano player for one of the most popular jazz bands in the world, arrived in Knoxville in the fall of 1929 to make some recordings, the sooty, crowded town noisy with streetcars and […]

Continue Reading




  • PARTNERS

  • Knoxville Mercury

  • Knox Heritage

  • East Tennessee Historical Society

  • Visit Knoxville

  • Knox County Public Library

  • Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound