This newly remastered six-CD box set is a reissue of the six-LP set compiled by folk archivist Harry Smith in 1952. Some of the many artists influenced by this collection of field......read more
Audio Remasterer: Richard Nevins. Liner Note Authors: Charles K. Wolfe; Don Kent. These are 23 rare 78s from the 1920s and 1930s, chosen to illustrate the wide range of "early......read more
Like volume one, this presents 23 examples of early American rural music, mastered from rare 78s of the 1920s and 1930s. And like volume one, the names here will challenge the expertise......read more
Various Artists: Virgil Childers, Louise Lasky, Long "Cleve" Reed. Personn el: Eli Framer, Hambone Willie Newbern, Louie Lasky , Luke Jordan, Mississippi John Hurt, Big Boy Cleveland,......read more
Includes liner notes by Paul Oliver. Perso nnel: Henry Thomas (vocals, guitar, reed pipe); Frank Stokes, Ashley Thompson, Garfield Akers, Ishman Bracey, Mississippi John Hurt, Richard......read more
This delightful disc collects the complete recorded work of three unique 1920s blues performers, Richard "Rabbit" Brown, Mississippi John Hurt, and Hambone Willie Newbern, each of......read more
You have to add one virtue to the many cited for the Byrds -- they knew the best song-bags and catalogs to choose from in their covers, even if not all of the latter were always entirely......read more
Personnel: Richard Rabbit Brown (vocals, guitar); Sidney Bechet (vocals, clarinet); Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet); Clarence Williams, Walter "Fats" Pichon, Jelly Roll Morton, Little......read more
The 1920s is perhaps the only time when we hear what America was actually singing of its own accord, and since record companies at the time had little idea what might actually sell,......read more