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Country Blues => Weenie Campbell Main Forum => Topic started by: Vermonter on October 27, 2017, 10:12:48 AM
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Anybody know anything more about this? Any possibility of some blues discoveries? Looks like we'll have to live a while longer to find out.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/boston-public-library-vinyl-digitization?
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I would not get too excited - this sounds like a collection of commercial recordings only... no field recordings. That's my initial response!
pbl
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The chances of finding something previously unknown, but that we're interested in, are pretty slim as Peter says. However, it's certainly a worthy endeavor that will preserve an important part of social and cultural history. And one never knows what is hidden in the archives.
There was a short piece on TV out here about something tangential:
http://crosscut.com/2017/08/record-collection-japanese-immigrants-music-jccw/
https://kcts9.org/programs/borders-heritage-local-stories/records-history-music-collection-early-japanese-immigrant
One thing mentioned that I hadn't been aware of was that some of the records were pressed with only one side having music. The other side was blank.