H. C. Speir (born Henry C. Speir in Prospect, Mississippi, October 6, 1895; d. Jackson, Mississippi, 1972) was an American "talent broker" and record store owner from Jackson, Mississippi. He was responsible for launching the recording careers of most of the greatest Mississippi blues musicians in the 1920s and 1930s. Speir was a white businessman who ran a music and furniture store on Farish Street, in Jackson's black neighborhood. Wikipedia
H.C. Speir Henry C. Speir, a music store owner in Jackson, Mississippi, was responsible for launching the recording careers of most of the greatest Mississippi bluesmen in the 1920s and 30s. www.blues.org/halloffame/inductees.php4?ArtistId=287
Blues Scholar Gayle Dean Wardlow "discovered" H.C. Speir in 1964, while a student at Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi. www.bluesworld.com/SpierIntro.html
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for H. C. Speir. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%2e_C%2e_Speir
Speir was a white businessman who ran a music and merchantile store on Farish Street, in Jackson's black neighborhood. In 1926, through selling blues records in his store, he began working as a scout for the record companies producing the records, such a medlibrary.org/medwiki/H._C._Speir
