Album Description

What is your favourite Sunday morning record? "I like old recordings. I love the things Joe Bussard puts out - he's preserving a lot of corners of music that are precious, mountain music, jazz, blues, music that was on 78. I dig that." Elvis Costello - MOJO Dec 2005

"This is the music of poor whites and blacks: wild-ass jazz and string-band hillbilly, surreal yodels and king snake moans, lightning-bolt blues and whorehouse romps and orgasmic gospel. It's all anti-pop, anti-sentimental: the raw sounds of the city gutter and the roadside ditch." Desperate Man Blues by Eddie Dean - Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000

"Joe has spent more than 50 years pursuing his purpose with a single-mindedness bordering on mania. And his purpose is no less than collecting and preserving the vast wealth of American vernacular music that was recorded on fragile shellac discs during the early decades of this century." A Visit and Interview with Record Collector Joseph E. Bussard, Jr by Marshall Wyatt - Old-Time Herald Spring 1999 - oldhatrecords.com/BussardInt.html

24 Rare Gems From The King Of Record Collectors - String Bands, Blues, Jazz, Country, Cajun, Gospel. Profusely illustrated, 72-page full-color booklet includes biographical essay, fully annotated discography, and firsthand accounts of Joe's record collecting adventures. 72 minutes of digitally remastered music.

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Discs and Tracks

Disc 1
  1 - The Lost Child - Stripling Brothers
  2 - How You Want It Done? - Big Bill
  3 - The (New) Call Of The Freaks - Luis Russell & His Orchestra
  4 - The School House Fire - Dixon Brothers
  5 - Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band
  6 - You Got To Go Down - Blind Gary
  7 - The Old Ark's A'Moving - A.A. Gray And Seven-Foot Dilly
  8 - Runnin' Wild - James Cole's Washboard Four
  9 - Keep It Clean - Charley Jordan
  10 - Get The "L" On Down The Road - Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band
  11 - I Got A Bulldog - Sweet Brothers & Ernest Stoneman
  12 - Old Hen Cackle - Coleman & Harper
  13 - Song From A Cotton Field - Bessie Brown
  14 - Atlanta Bound - Gene Autry
  15 - Easy Rider Blues - Soileau And Robin
  16 - Hot Lips - Bill Brown And His Brownies
  17 - Uncle Dave's Beloved Solo - Uncle Dave Macon
  18 - Hastings Street - Blind Blake And Charlie Spand
  19 - Ain't That Trouble In Mind - Fields Ward & The Grayson County Railsplitters
  20 - Give The World A Smile - The Corley Family
  21 - Original Stack O'Lee Blues - Long Cleve Reed And Little Harvey Hull (Down Home Boys)
  22 - Hot Town - Fess Williams And His Royal Flush Orchestra
  23 - Paddlin' Blues - Gitfiddle Jim
  24 - Plow Boy Hop - Grinnell Giggers

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