After almost two centuries of providing critical logistic backup to soldiers in forbidding and desolate terrain, including in ...

The unlabeled cylinder he’d bought contained Vasnier singing and braying his way through “Thompson’s Old Gray Mule,” a song later recorded by hillbilly masters Uncle Dave Macon and Riley ...

The track 'Thompson's Old Gray Mule' was recorded in 1891 and sung by Louis Vasnier, a black man from New Orleans. Now a specialty label, Archeophone Records, has restored and released the record.