Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch
One of the crucial scenes in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom depicts Paramount refusing to provide Ma with a cold Coke. The play unscrolls as a kind of performance rider, itemizing the studio's unfulfilled contractual obligations, until the ultimate ripoff at the end... — PolitiTweet.org
ChicagoBluesHistory @ChiBluesHistory
Delta bluesman Tommy Johnson spent two weeks recording in Grafton, Wisconsin, for Paramount in 1930. According to h… https://t.co/WejGr4vv7i