Posting this here in hopes of starting a proper discussion on these recordings. Aside from whoever has visited Joe Bussard, and heard these recordings in person: I'm unsure if these have been widely shared, or posted publicly.
Daniel Bachman, a guitarist from Virginia, visited Joe back in 2011. During his visit Joe played these recordings from a set of masters that he owns. Daniel had Joe dub these songs to tape for him to take home. A couple months back, May 2014, Dan posted them to his blog here:
http://danbachblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/joe-bussard-tape-unknown-artist-1927.html
Please visit that post to download the mp3's and read what Dan has to say about the visit to Joe's house. All in all I was wanting to put them up on Youtube maybe so people can access it easier, stream it instantly, etc; instead of having to download a zip file.
About the artists themselves; Joe may have mentioned some facts about them but Daniel did not replicate them in his blog post, so it seems relatively certain that these recordings are officially unknown to this day.
Really quality songs though: open tuned, slide guitar playing in the gospel style. Male singing with multiple (sounds like 2) female accompaniments. Rough edged guitar playing, shrill female voice, deep male voice. It certainly would've fit right in on Revenant's American Primitive Vol. I: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-36).
Anyone else come across this recordings or have any thoughts? The year 1927 has been attributed to them, not sure why though.
http://danbachblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/joe-bussard-tape-unknown-artist-1927.html
http://www.mediafire.com/download/hqdqpavwow27dww/Joes+Tape.zip
Daniel Bachman, a guitarist from Virginia, visited Joe back in 2011. During his visit Joe played these recordings from a set of masters that he owns. Daniel had Joe dub these songs to tape for him to take home. A couple months back, May 2014, Dan posted them to his blog here:
http://danbachblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/joe-bussard-tape-unknown-artist-1927.html
Please visit that post to download the mp3's and read what Dan has to say about the visit to Joe's house. All in all I was wanting to put them up on Youtube maybe so people can access it easier, stream it instantly, etc; instead of having to download a zip file.
About the artists themselves; Joe may have mentioned some facts about them but Daniel did not replicate them in his blog post, so it seems relatively certain that these recordings are officially unknown to this day.
Really quality songs though: open tuned, slide guitar playing in the gospel style. Male singing with multiple (sounds like 2) female accompaniments. Rough edged guitar playing, shrill female voice, deep male voice. It certainly would've fit right in on Revenant's American Primitive Vol. I: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-36).
Anyone else come across this recordings or have any thoughts? The year 1927 has been attributed to them, not sure why though.
http://danbachblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/joe-bussard-tape-unknown-artist-1927.html
http://www.mediafire.com/download/hqdqpavwow27dww/Joes+Tape.zip