An interview with Gareth Murphy author of "Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry."

Host Nate Wilcox gets Gareth to detail his researches on the earliest days of the record industry when Thomas Edison battled The Victor Talking Machine company for control of the industry.

Then the conversation follows the record industry's evolution into the "race records" era of the 1920s, John Hammond's career at Columbia Records.

Then we focus on Chris Blackwell, the British record man behind Island Records and wrap with some of his contemporaries in the UK record industry of the 70s & 80s.

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