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Little Labels -- Big Sound: Small Record Companies And The Rise Of American Music By Rick Kennedy and Randy McNutt Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 2001, 224 pages, ISBN 0253214343, hbk., $17.95

In the early 1930s, Art Laibly organized Charlie Patton's last recording session for Paramount. A non-drinking friend drove Patton, guitarist Will Brown, pianist Louise Johnson, and an ex-preacher named Son House, to the recording session in Wisconsin. The books' autho...