Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2003-06-17
Music Label: Old Hat Records / Enterprises
Soundtracks:
- The Lost Child - Stripling Brothers
- How You Want It Done? - Big Bill
- The (New) Call Of The Freaks - Luis Russell & His Orchestra
- The School House Fire - Dixon Brothers
- Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band
- You Got To Go Down - Blind Gary
- The Old Ark's A'Moving - A.A. Gray And Seven-Foot Dilly
- Runnin' Wild - James Cole's Washboard Four
- Keep It Clean - Charley Jordan
- Get The "L" On Down The Road - Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band
- I Got A Bulldog - Sweet Brothers & Ernest Stoneman
- Old Hen Cackle - Coleman & Harper
- Song From A Cotton Field - Bessie Brown
- Atlanta Bound - Gene Autry
- Easy Rider Blues - Soileau And Robin
- Hot Lips - Bill Brown And His Brownies
- Uncle Dave's Beloved Solo - Uncle Dave Macon
- Hastings Street - Blind Blake And Charlie Spand
- Ain't That Trouble In Mind - Fields Ward & The Grayson County Railsplitters
- Give The World A Smile - The Corley Family
- Original Stack O'Lee Blues - Long Cleve Reed And Little Harvey Hull (Down Home Boys)
- Hot Town - Fess Williams And His Royal Flush Orchestra
- Paddlin' Blues - Gitfiddle Jim
- Plow Boy Hop - Grinnell Giggers
Free Music Notes for Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet)
Free Music Review: Fantastic!
Hit: 5 Stars
It's fitting that my 78th review on Amazon is for this CD of 78s. This is one of the best CDs I've acquired in some time. Not only is the CD packed with two dozen recorded gems, but the accompanying booklet is one of the best I've seen. Yes, this collection is more about Joe Bussard and his collection than about the music itself--but that's not a bad thing. To the collectors: don't worry--discographical information and brief paragraphs about each tune on the disc are included.The collection is an assortment of jazz, blues, and "hillbilly" records from the 1920s and 1930s, most of them quite rare. The sound quality is marvelous! The producers were careful to use only minimal noise reduction, with none of that artificial reverb or phony stereo that ruins so many other reissues of vintage recordings. The result is not CD-quality surround sound, rather, you feel like you're listening to brand-new, clean copies of the original 78s on good equipment. You'll be amazed how nice these old records can sound! The booklet provides some fascinating anecdotes into Joe Bussard's collecting life, including stories about how he came to own many of the records on this CD. As you read, you'll follow Joe down the backroads of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia, knocking on doors asking for "old records." Collectors will instantly spot taht in some cases, only two or three known copies of a particular 78 on this CD are known to exist. Thank goodness Mr. Bussard is keeping them safe and sharing them with producers of reissues of vintage material. This is a CD I play often, with one of my absolute favorites on the disc being "Get the 'L' on Down the Road." With some hot bass-slappin', hotter jug blowin', and even hotter lyrics, that one's worth the price of the disc alone! There's lots more where these records came from. Let's hope more of them make their way on to CDs like this one. Highly recommended!
Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet) Poster
What is your favourite Sunday morning record? "I like old recordings. I love the things Joe Bussard puts out - he's preserving a lot of corners of music that are precious, mountain music, jazz, blues, music that was on 78. I dig that." Elvis Costello - MOJO Dec 2005"This is the music of poor whites and blacks: wild-ass jazz and string-band hillbilly, surreal yodels and king snake moans, lightning-bolt blues and whorehouse romps and orgasmic gospel. It's all anti-pop, anti-sentimental: the raw sounds of the city gutter and the roadside ditch." Desperate Man Blues by Eddie Dean - Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000
"Joe has spent more than 50 years pursuing his purpose with a single-mindedness bordering on mania. And his purpose is no less than collecting and preserving the vast wealth of American vernacular music that was recorded on fragile shellac discs during the early decades of this century." A Visit and Interview with Record Collector Joseph E. Bussard, Jr by Marshall Wyatt - Old-Time Herald Spring 1999 - oldhatrecords.com/BussardInt.html
24 Rare Gems From The King Of Record Collectors - String Bands, Blues, Jazz, Country, Cajun, Gospel. Profusely illustrated, 72-page full-color booklet includes biographical essay, fully annotated discography, and firsthand accounts of Joe's record collecting adventures. 72 minutes of digitally remastered music.
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