Brockman, Polk
(1898–1985)
Brockman, Polk 1898; GA – 10 March 1985; Maitland, FL OKeh label distributor based in Atlanta, Georgia. Scouted blues artists for OKeh, and conducted or assisted various remote commercial recording sessions, including a 1930 OKeh session in Jackson, Mississippi, with local scout H.C. Speir. Later, from 1934 through World War II, he scouted for Bluebird, working especially with the Mississippi Sheiks and Bo Carter. Also a key figure in country music for finding Fiddlin’ John Carson for OKeh in…