Creative Loafing Atlanta

In 1923, OKeh Records’ recording sessions at 152 Nassau Street highlighted an array of Southern jazz numbers from Warner’s Seven Aces and Charlie Fulcher, spirituals from the Morehouse College Quartet, and blues tracks from Lucille Bogan, Eddie Heywood, and Fannie Mae Goosby. What also makes these sessions noteworthy is that it’s where famed Cabbagetown resident Fiddlin’ John Carson cut to wax his tunes “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” and “The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster’s Going to Crow,” stamping in time the beginning of commercially recorded country music. Host Chad Radford speaks to Kyle Kessler about how this important historical site could soon fall prey to the wrecking ball, making way for a massive Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville location. Photo by Bill Torpy.