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Emerging Power series: Bristol, Tenn., Police Lt. Debbie Richmond

TriCities.com - Feb 21, 2012
The investigation, of a Baptist preacher who adopted a girl and kept her as the family slave until she was 19, turned into one of the biggest cases for the Bristol Tennessee Police Department. The 1988 murder of Richmond's dad is a driving force behind ...

Pioneers in Paradise: No courthouses in Bristol's earliest years

TriCities.com - Feb 19, 2012
A chancery court was established in Bristol, Tennessee in 1879. Old Conway Hall had been erected south of Main in the first block of 5th Street to serve as a public facility or assembling place. It housed this first court. The same building was also ...

Doctors Unsure Of Long-Term Effects Of Bath Salts

WCYB - Feb 21, 2012
The Bristol, Tennessee Police Department responded to call in the beginning of January about a 22-year old man wrapped up in blankets on the floor acting 'strange.' Police learned the man was under the influence of bath salts.

Viamedia Announces Partnership With BTES & BVU in Tri-Cities DMA

MarketWatch (press release) - Feb 15, 2012
About Bristol Tennessee Essential Services (BTES)Bristol Tennessee Essential Services' fiber-to-the-user system is available to all of its 33000 electric customers. BTES currently serves 18 schools within Sullivan County and the city of Bristol ...

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The Bristol Sessions: Historic Recordings from Bristol, Tennessee

(Audio CD)
Right there on the cover, Johnny Cash calls these sessions "the single most important event in the history of country music," and it's hard to argue with him. Sure, there'd been "Southern" music recordings before these, and of course the music itself had existed for decades. But when Victor executive Ralph Peer went to Bristol, Tennessee, for two weeks in the summer of 1927, he not only jump-started the hillbilly music market, he basically defined the parameters of what would come to be called country music.

Titles:
    1. Skip to Ma Lou, My Darling
    2. O' Molly Dear
    3. Walking in the Way With Jesus
    4. The New Market Wreck
    5. The Soldier's Sweetheart
    6. Greasy String
    7. Are You Washed in the Blood
    8. Henry Whitter's Fox Chase
    9. Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow
    10. The Jealous Sweetheart
    11. When They Ring the Golden Bells
    12. Sandy Rover Belle
    13. Sleep, Baby, Sleep
    14. Johnny Goodman
    15. I'm Redeemed
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The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music

(Paperback)
by: Ted Olson
In the summer of 1927, nineteen bands gathered for a recording session in Bristol, on the Tennessee-Virginia border, including some of the most influential names in American musicthe Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest Stoneman and more. Organized by Ralph Peer for Victor records to capitalize on the popularity of hillbilly music, the Bristol sessions were a key moment in country musics evolution. The musicians played a variety of styles largely endemic to the Appalachian region. Rather than attempting to record purely traditional sounds, however, Peer sought a combination of musical elements, an amalgam that would form the backbone of modern country music.
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Bristol Tennessee/Virginia: A History-1852-1900

(Hardcover)
by: V. N. Bud Phillips
Covering Bristol's formative years, this is the story of people and events surrounding the rise of this city between two states—the town that Joseph R. Anderson, its founder, wanted to call "Paradise." The book reveals a cross section of Bristol's ancestry, ranging from the noble and well-known to the humble and obscure. Containing a myriad of facts that will be of wide local interest, the narrative offers insight into the human condition as it existed during the last century. Enhanced with numerous old photographs, this carefully researched volume is a definitive reference on Bristol.
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Between the States: Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia During the Civil War

(Hardcover)
by: V. N. Bud Phillips
This second in a series of books on Bristol's history gives a vivid account of her most trying years—the Civil War period. It begins with a look at slavery as it existed in the new town in those years just prior to the beginning of the war. For a town its size, Bristol had a surprising number of slaves. Information given in the opening section of the book was largely obtained from the writings of two persons who lived in the new town at that time—thus a valuable insight into slave life is given by those who saw it firsthand.
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Bristol

(Paperback)
by: George Stone, Sonya A. Haskins
Images of America: Bristol celebrates the history of the town known as "A Good Place to Live." Joseph A. Anderson bought land on the Virginia-Tennessee border from his father-in-law, Rev. James King, and founded Bristol in 1852. Just four years later, the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad came to Bristol, and the town became a major trading center of the Appalachian region. During the Civil War, Bristol was a vital railway link between the North and the South, and it later became known as the birthplace of country music.
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