I don't know what Robert Crumb would feel about this rare British reissue from the 1950s; maybe he owns a copy.
Jelly Roll Morton died in 1941, 20 years before his lookalike was born.
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Showing posts with label 78rpm records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 78rpm records. Show all posts
JELLY ROLL MORTON'S SMOKEHOUSE BLUES
This isn't at all my usual kind of music, but an enthusiast played me this track as we were sitting in his pleasant French farmhouse the other week, and it sounded terrific - full of life and sunshine, despite its title:
I don't know what Robert Crumb would feel about this rare British reissue from the 1950s; maybe he owns a copy.
Jelly Roll Morton died in 1941, 20 years before his lookalike was born.
I don't know what Robert Crumb would feel about this rare British reissue from the 1950s; maybe he owns a copy.
Jelly Roll Morton died in 1941, 20 years before his lookalike was born.
ROBERT CRUMB ON COLLECTING OLD RECORDS
There's a terrific 2013 interview with Robert Crumb, about collecting & obsession in general and old 78rpm records in particular, here at Discaholic Corner. It comes with this comic self-criticism from 1977:
and, at the end, this quote: “We humans with all our intelligence and cleverness are helpless creatures driven by forces over which we have very little control and which we barely understand. Who can fathom the collecting compulsion? It’s not something to be proud of, though it’s certainly not the worst human trait."
What never gets discussed in the interview is the observable fact that 99.999% of serious collecting prolonged into adulthood is by men and not by women. Completists, listmakers, those who remember the matrix numbers of prized-possession records: men.
and, at the end, this quote: “We humans with all our intelligence and cleverness are helpless creatures driven by forces over which we have very little control and which we barely understand. Who can fathom the collecting compulsion? It’s not something to be proud of, though it’s certainly not the worst human trait."
What never gets discussed in the interview is the observable fact that 99.999% of serious collecting prolonged into adulthood is by men and not by women. Completists, listmakers, those who remember the matrix numbers of prized-possession records: men.
AND AFTER VINYL - THE 78?
Anyone old enough to have, or even to have seen, 78rpm records thinks of them as hopelessly impractical: heavy, far too breakable - they're made of shellac - and offering poor sound quality. Here's a man who thinks differently:
“Actually, the material that was used to make 78’s is much harder, more inert and holds up better than materials used to make subsequent media.”
This claim comes from the dialogue in the comments under this video created on YouTube by “merrihew" - and it is so interesting, despite the narrator's somewhat inexpressive delivery - and perhaps especially to anyone concerned with the question of how to hear old blues or hillbilly records via the best possible medium:
“Actually, the material that was used to make 78’s is much harder, more inert and holds up better than materials used to make subsequent media.”
This claim comes from the dialogue in the comments under this video created on YouTube by “merrihew" - and it is so interesting, despite the narrator's somewhat inexpressive delivery - and perhaps especially to anyone concerned with the question of how to hear old blues or hillbilly records via the best possible medium:
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