When it comes to the history of Georgia musician Fiddlin’ John Carson – it’s complicated.
The white fiddler and singer recorded the first country music hit in 1923 at 152 Nassau Street in Atlanta.
But Carson also frequented Ku Klux Klan rallies and recorded a song that led to a lynching of a Jewish factory superintendent.
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