↑ Charters, The Country Blues, pages 34-35: "The first was Hart Wand’s "Dallas Blues, " published in March; the second was Arthur Seals’s "Bab Seals' Blues, " published in August; Handy finally brought out his blues in September. Both Handy and Arthur Seals were Negroes, but the music that they titled "blues is more or less derived from the standard popular musical styles of the «coon-song» and «cake-walk» type. It is ironic the first published piece in the Negro "blues idiom, «Dallas Blues,' was by a white man, Hart Wand»