Apologies to all for not giving more info regarding the importance of the news you'll find if you follow the link. Here's a paragraph taken from it:
"In 2006, the Arhoolie Foundation catalogued and digitized what we understood to be the last of Oster?s field recordings bestowed to us by his widow. In 2012 we discovered that many known recordings listed in discographies and mentioned in Oster?s writings could not be accounted for among the tapes in our collection, nor were they to be found in the few other repositories with which he had relationships. Further inquiries with his widow revealed several hundred additional tapes still in her possession: not only the lost sessions in question, but many more spanning the full breadth of his career beginning with his earliest Louisiana recordings of French ballads, Creole hymns and Cajun dances, all the way to the fiddle tunes, breakdowns and blues he captured in Iowa decades later."
"Several hundred additional tapes" of Harry Oster field recordings! Can't wait to hear what they contain!
Lindy
