VARIOUS-BLUES & GOSPEL Black Swan Blues: The Hard Rise & Brutal Fall Of... (2021 UK 190-page softback book - Forty years before Motown there was Black Swan. Created by a young Black songwriter called Harry Pace this pioneering 1920s blues label gave 14 million African-Americans the chance to hear their own authentic music on disc for the first time. Ethel Waters Down Home Blues was the labels first big hit its sales fuelled by a ground-breaking US tour which made headlines everyw here it touched down. Soon the exciting new records Pace produced were pulling in white listeners as well as Black and providing the essential soundtrack at every chic Hollywood party. This is the story of a truly remarkable record label - a