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Acme Studio originated in Long Island, NY

About: Rev Clifford Spurlock family CM readers have warm memories

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The Acme Studio in Columbia, Ky?Well, to help explain.

I work from time to time recording music in today's Acme studio in Chicago.

Acme Records originated in Long Island, NY.

During the late 1930s, 1940s, and till sometime in the mid 1950s there was the Kentucky based Acme Label in Louisville, KY. Satellite locations were in Bowling Green, Hopkinsville, Renfro Valley and Columbia, KY.




Acme Records KY signed the famous Carter Family.

If you wanted to record or set up a studio back then you contacted Acme and they set you up with the equipment for cutting records and gave you the label distrubution power.

The Rev Spurlock must have done this in Columbia. During this time ,Bowling Green and Hopkinsville were under full swing operations. Lots of great Bluegrass talent was coming out of Acme Label in Hopkinsville, KY. My guess is the Rev. Spurlock was recording in the church.

If you find anymore info on this subject I would greatly appreciate receiving anything anyone comes up with.

God Bless to all in Columbia, KYJeff Keltner, the writer of the article, comes from a family with strong musical talents. His father, the late James Howard Keltner was a scholar in the field, a luthier for a hobby, and an encyclopedic font of information about stringed instruments and recordings and loved nothing better than picking and grinning with buddies like Greg Coomer. Jeff is a frequent visitor to Columbia to see his many Keltner and Hagan cousins and other kinfolks.


This story was posted on 2007-10-03 13:37:49
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