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Features Disc of the day
Various Artists
Down In The Basement
Rare grooves courtesy of the world’s greatest record hound…
Joe Bussard has been collecting records for the last 50 years. To date, he’s amassed over 25,000 supreme vinyl specimens of old-time folk, blues, country, gospel and jazz. His Maryland basement acts as an unrivalled library of American roots music widely regarded as the finest collection of its kind in the world. In 2003, Bussard was persuaded by the Old Hat label to compile some of his favourite shellac discs onto (whisper it) CD. The result was this 24-track compilation. Anyone who’s seen Desperate Man Blues – the 2003 film documenting his quest – will be familiar with this man’s infectious, jittering enthusiasm. A mean guitar/mandolin player himself, the cigar-chomping perma-grinning Bussard lives these sides every time he puts the needle to the record. Down In The Basement’s cornucopia of country-blues, string band zingers, hot jazz and southern pastorals spans 11 years (1926-37) and, with its cast of characters from across the States, a hundred lifetimes. From The Dixon Brothers spectral, terrifying School House Fire to the shimmying horns of Fess Williams’ Hot Town, these songs act as a passport back to the monochrome trials of Depression-era America. And it’s not only super rare one-offs; cuts by Blind Blake, Uncle Dave Macon and Gene Autry sit happily among such unearthed gems as Long Cleve Reed and Little Harvey Hull’s Original Stack O’Lee Blues (Bussard owns the only original copy of the latter). Through the crackle and hum of the record player, here is the sound of working folk facing each day head on. And thanks to likes of Joe Bussard, their stories will always sound best at 78rpm.
Ross Bennett
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 09/02/2009
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Various Artists - Doom & Gloom: Early Songs Of Angst And Disaster 1927-1945 (Trikont, 2007)
Various Artists - The Anthology Of American Folk Music (Folkways, 1952)
Various Artists - Fonotone Records 1956-1969 (Dust-To-Digital, 2005)
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