The first complete examamination of Paramount Records - the label that introduced Ma Rainey, Charley Patton, Skip James, and other blues greats to the world - a

Founded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair-making company. The company pinned no outsized

Season Finale is an inside chronicle of the entertainment industry following the unexpected rise and fall of the WB and UPN networks. In the mid-1990s, Hollywoo

Fifty-eight updated biographies of Paramount blues artists with sensational new information based on years of research. Some of the artists covered by the New P

A survey of dance bands playing in the Wisconsin area from the 1920's to the 1950's, with a particular emphasis on those who produced records with New York Reco