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Watch: Recording Detroit: The Ballad of Joe Von Battle






Watch: Recording Detroit: The Ballad of Joe Von Battle


https://timeline.com/joe-von-battle-marsha-music-detroit-history-video-f24855569b46
 
Joe Von Battle was a self-made man, who followed a well-trod path from the rural South to the urban north during the Great Migration. His Detroit record shop not only sold the sounds of the black South—blues and gospel— but recorded many of the recent arrivals all around him. Artists like Aaron "Little Sonny" Willis, John Lee Hooker, Reverend C.L. Franklin, and his daughter Aretha. But the promise of Detroit wore thin for many black residents, and Joe's Records would be caught in the middle of the tumult that overtook the city in 1967…  Continue Reading 


 

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