Editing Boogie-woogie (section)

===="Fast Western" connection to Marshall and Harrison County, Texas====
Max Harrison (in the book ''Jazz'' edited by Hentoff and McCarthy in 1959) and [[Robert "Mack" McCormick|Mack McCormick]] (in the liner notes to his Treasury of Field Recordings, Vol. 2) concluded that "Fast Western" was the first term by which boogie-woogie was known.  He stated that "in [[Houston]], [[Dallas]], and [[Galveston]]—all Negro piano players played that way. This style was often referred to as a 'fast western' or 'fast blues' as differentiated from the 'slow blues' of [[New Orleans]] and [[St. Louis]]. At these gatherings the [[ragtime]] and blues boys could easily tell from what section of the country a man came, even going so far as to name the town, by his interpretation of a piece."<ref>Campbell, E. Simms Campbell, ''Jazzmen: The Story of Hot Jazz Told in the Lives of the Men Who Created It'', 1939, Chapter 4: "Blues", pp. 112–113.</ref>

According to Tennison, when he interviewed Lee Ree Sullivan in [[Texarkana]] in 1986, Sullivan told him that he was familiar with "Fast Western" and "Fast Texas" as terms to refer to boogie-woogie in general, but not to denote the use of any specific bass figure used in boogie-woogie. Sullivan said that "Fast Western" and "Fast Texas" were terms that derived from the Texas Western Railroad Company of Harrison County.<ref name="Lee Ree Sullivan 1986">Interview with Lee Ree Sullivan, Boogie Woogie pianist, 1986, Texarkana, AR-TX, by John Tennison and Alfred Tennison, Jr.</ref> The company was chartered on February 16, 1852, and changed its name to "Southern Pacific" in 1856. It built its first track from [[Marshall, Texas]] Swanson's Landing at Caddo Lake in 1857.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqt20 |title=TEXAS WESTERN RAILROAD &#124; The Handbook of Texas Online&#124; Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) |website=Tshaonline.org |access-date=2016-10-05}}</ref> (This Texas-based "Southern Pacific" was not connected to the more well known [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific]] originating in San Francisco, California.) The Southern Pacific of Texas was bought by the newly formed [[Texas and Pacific Railway]] on March 21, 1872.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Werner |first1=George C. |title=Texas Western Railroad |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-western-railroad |website=Handbook of Texas Online |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |access-date=6 April 2021}}</ref>

Although the Texas Western Railroad Company changed its name to Southern Pacific, Sullivan said the name "Texas Western" stuck among the slaves who constructed the railroad.<ref name="Lee Ree Sullivan 1986" />