The earliest known ‘country’ recording has been found. The singer? A Black man. A new release of an 1891 song by Louis Vasnier deepens what we know about the genre’s origins.

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Residents in Cervantes are urged to evacuate now as firefighters battle a raging blaze north of Perth.