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Rockman
Its a never ending search but
In about half those artist above
the Yazoo's still hold their ground
sound wise but in most cases they never
did complete recording sets of artists .....
The Documents cover the artists complete
recordings but sound wise they are not real
good and once Johnny Parth sold it to a Scottish
farmer things went down hill real quick ...
I think they still operate but are mainly downloads or CDRs..
Then Jack Whites Third Man jumped into bed with them and
released some Patton ... McTell ... Sheiks stuff but that
seems to have ground ta a holt ...
Blind Lemon .. AMAZING artist but those Paramount
recording were poorly pressed etc from the beginning
so he's always gonna be a tough listen ...
Bessie well the Complete has been on vinyl and CD box sets
a few times over the years and with Jackie Kay's recent book
and things like the Ma Rainey Black Bottom film there may be
a reissue of Bessie and many of prewar female blues artists ...
There's a recent Memphis Minnie Keep On Going 2CD which
is great but not complete and includes the hard to find
Broken Heart that she cut at Chess in '52 with Little Walter ...
Check out the American Epic 4CD set that was released
in conjunction with doco ... through new process they
did a good job of cleaning up the sound of many of those
artists .... and like Third Man they too did a hand full
of best of's of some of those artists then ground to a halt ...
Any of The Revenant releases are great if you can still find them
and usually include John Fahey's liner notes ....
The Patton box is stunning
Also look into labels like Dust To Digital and Old Hat
Happy searching ....
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Rockman
HEY Yeah Professor ..... I recall a
Keith Richard interview from a few years
back where he said that Tom Waits had sent
him a copy of a new Leadbelly set
No proof but Possibly the Smithsonian Folkways set .....
Keith did a version of Irene on Xeyed Heart ...