Product description CD Review In the Basement at 78 RPM: Going waaay back with 78s more precious than your 45s - faculty.sunydutchess.edu/allen/waxpoetics/volume-7.pdf -- Joe Allen - Wax Poetics Spring 2004 P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Artist Interview / Spotlight on Marshall Wyatt It's a funny thing. As we embark further on our journey into the new century, we are just now starting to rediscover all the long-forgotten, wonderful things about the 20th. Whether it's bluegrass or early jazz, many music lovers have developed a growing fondness for the musical styles of yesteryear. The result has been a slow but growing interest in older recorded music, music trapped on 78 RPM records, just waiting to be unleashed by modern technology. Enter Marshall Wyatt. His Old Hat label seeks out obscure vintage tunes and releases them in compilation form on CD, opening up a world unknown to our time - taking us back to the basic roots of popular entertainment that still impact the contemporary world. So how does Wyatt go about giving this music new life? We ask him about his mission and the love he has for the music of long ago. Mark Hodges - Mish Mash Feb 2002 - mashmusic.tripod.com/oldhat.html See more
G**D
Down in the Groove
This record is a complete blast, from the track selection to the packaging. Joe Broussard owns 50,000 78s of gospel, old country, blues, cajun, etc and 24 of them made it on this disc. The sound is sparkling and the only clunker track is "Give the World a Smile" by the Corley Family. Good to hear some obscurities alongside Rev Gary Davis and Big Bill Broonzy and I'm glad the world has at least a couple of pale record freaks who like to sit in their basements sniffing shellac and collecting pristine old-time music. Makes me want to go steal a Victrola!
G**N
fun fun fun
there is nothing more to say, really. the other reviewers all got it right (except the part about the corley family's cut being a clunker - i love that one.) to think that this is less than a thousandth of this guy's collection makes me salivate for another disk. from the dawn of the recorded age - 20 years earlier and all this would just be gone in the air...
S**S
Given as a gift
This CD was on my son's "wish list" at Christmas so I'm sure he loves it. He's a musician and makes his living teaching "old time" music- banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar.
D**N
The basement is the best room in the house
Great stuff from the bedrock of early jazz and deep blues and country music.Americas greatest contribution to world music.Keep mining this basement,there is riches here,great riches..
B**T
What can you say? This is the s@#t.
Amazing collection. Every song is a fabulous reminder of the incredible variety of music we used to produce. Masterful collection. You will love it.
M**D
super!
I wish they would make more of these from his huge collection. Lots of great tunes to clog or buck dance along with!
M**Y
Down in the Basement Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s
This is a gift to my son, who is very musical and plays many instruments. He likes all types of music.
J**E
The Legendary Joe Bussard
Bussard is a legend among old record collectors and this opening of his vaults promises musical bliss. For the complete story on Bussard go to [...] -- and after reading it you'll have to agree with the previous reviwer that one CD is not enough. Maybe there will be future volumes....
R**N
This...is a release for collectors by the King of Collectors
This is not just another reissue of old 78's .... this is a collection of rarities put together by a man who lives and breathes shellac. The discs on this CD are all prime copies, no elecktrickery; track 21 (Original Stack O'Lee Blues) is the only copy of this disc known to exist, one disc from a label that issued only 55 records....bought in a lot for ten dollars, that someone has since offered thirty thousand dollars for....but collectors never sell, they buy discs to listen to, not trade.And Joe Bussard is the king of collectors, been at it since his teens, knows his stuff and loves his music...proper music that is. We are lucky that he chooses to share his collection with us and others who've heard his broadcasts....This is a collectors issue for collectors; you can tell by the booklet with the CD...74 pages with details about the discs, how they were found (each and every one!) pictures of the labels and (mint!!)sleeves....if they could record the smell and feel of a shellac disc in a cardboard sleeve they would have done.Most of us will never amass stuff like this since the glory days of collecting 78's from the original owners are now well gone; buy this CD and enjoy some real American music from the days when folks appreciated real musicianship.Then, in the words of Joe Bussard "Enjoy yourself, relax and live!"
P**T
Is this blues don't care!
fantastic enjoyable excellent reproduction some classic surface noise just adds to the nostalgia.don't really care what they're playing give me more
M**R
Great
most amazing cd,must for all lovers of early American music!
R**R
Five Stars
Some great old time music.
C**S
A treasure
These are great rare recordings. This is fresh, honest music from performers that are long gone. Yet it still speaks recognisable truths about the human condition.
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