Fiddlin’ John Carson
Musician · 1868–1949
Fiddlin' John Carson was a pioneering American old-time fiddler and singer.
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- Born on March 23, 1868, in Fannin County, Georgia; died on December 11, 1949, in Atlanta.
- His June 1923 Okeh Records sessions in Atlanta, on which he recorded “Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” and “The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster's Going to Crow,” are widely credited as the first commercial recordings of southern rural music.
- Won the Georgia Old-Time Fiddlers' Convention seven times.
