Thanks Stuart.
It's interesting, but - as I decided at around the 19 min mark - peripherally interesting.
I have a couple of thousand or so records, and I love em - but I don't love them quite enough perhaps, as some do - and on reflection, I would hate to earn my living buying and selling them.
Nevertheless - what John Tefteller has done with his own blues 78s in transcribing them and reissuing with his calendars is just the most awesome achievement and a kind of 'reverse' of the hoarding collector mentality in some ways - it's totally laudable.
Instead of being all like "Ah but my copy of Fence Breakin’ Yellin’ Blues sounds better than than all the others you've ever heard, so lucky me" - instead he's been like, "And.... here it is on the new CD - Enjoy, for only a few bucks".
And that has just been an awesome approach he's taken there
And I think the blues listening world owes him a debt of gratitude.
