<P> Texas, as the state of origin, became reinforced by Jelly Roll Morton who said he heard the boogie piano style there early in the 20th century; as did Leadbelly and Bunk Johnson, according to Rosetta Reitz . </P> <P> The first time the modern - day spelling of "boogie - woogie" was used in a title of a published audio recording of music appears to be Pine Top Smith's December 1928 recording titled, "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie", a song whose lyrics contain dance instructions to "boogie - woogie". </P> <P> The earliest documented inquiries into the geographical origin of boogie - woogie occurred in the late 1930s when oral histories from the oldest living Americans of both African and European descent revealed a broad consensus that boogie - woogie piano was first played in Texas in the early 1870s . Additional citations place the origins of boogie - woogie in the Piney Woods of northeast Texas . "The first Negroes who played what is called boogie - woogie, or house - rent music, and attracted attention in city slums where other Negroes held jam sessions, were from Texas . And all the Old - time Texans, black or white, are agreed that boogie piano players were first heard in the lumber and turpentine camps, where nobody was at home at all . The style dates from the early 1870s ." </P> <P> Max Harrison (in the book Jazz edited by Hentoff and McCarthy in 1959) and 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 . </P>

What state is most associated with the origin of boogie woogie