"Earliest known country song" ever recorded

[gvopedz]

A wax cylinder containing the oldest recorded country song was discovered in Pennsylvania. The track 'Thompson's Old Gray Mule' was recorded in 1891 and sung by Louis Vasnier, a black man from New Orleans. 

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0kcmb16/listen-to-the-earliest-known-country-song-ever-recorded

 

[rostasi]

I have Vasnier on this collection:

I have that tune, "Thompson's Old Gray Mule" done by Billy Cotton's band.
Not sure of its subsequent popularity.