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Folk In Hell

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Cheer up! my latest mix was uploaded today. Titled Folk In Hell, it’s a mixture of old 78’s from The Depression era onwards featuring songs of love and hope, loss, death and despair, I hope you dig it.

The Bently Boys : Down On Penny’s Farm Cliff Carlisle : The Wreck Of Number 52 Bascom Lamar Lansford : I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground The Caroliner Tar Heels : Got The Farmland Blues Bob Miller : Ohio Prison Fire Clarence Ashley : Naomi Wise Blind Willie Johnson : John the Revelator Ramblin’ Thomas : Poor Boy Blues Floyd Ming & His Pep-Steppers : Indian War Whoop Uncle Dave Macon : Way Down The Old Plank Road The Memphis Jug Band : K.C. Moan Frank Hutchison : Last Scene Of The Titanic Williamson Brothers & Curry : Gonna Die with My Hammer In My Hand Alabama Sacred Heart Singers : Rocky Road Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers : Shine On Me Elders McIntorch & Edwards : The Flood Of 1927 Bob Miller : The Crash Of The Akron Nelstone’s Hawaiians : Fatal Flower Garden Carolina Buddies : The » Continue Reading.

Records With History

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I thought it might be fun to hear about records in your collection that have history behind them. I’ll start it out…

About ten years ago, I would scour eBay for batches of old 78s to play on my acoustic phonograph. I wouldn’t pick and choose titles, I’d just depend on the luck of the draw and look for batches that seemed to have lots of interesting stuff. (Shipping is cheaper in a batch.) I saw a batch advertised that had a lot of 12 inch Victor Red Seals… Enrico Caruso and other great opera singers from the beginning of the 20th century. It was cheap so I bid the minimum and won the batch. Before the seller shipped, I asked him if he had any other 78s he’d like to sell so it could all go in one box. He asked me my interest and if I was a dealer, and I explained that I had just bought a beautiful Walnut Brunswick phonograph and I was looking for records to play on it. He PMed me back and said that he had one album binder of records but they were very special. He had no way to play them, » Continue Reading.

78’s Box

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I was so tempted by this old 78’s record box at the car boot this morning but it was too pricey for me. The discs in sleeves flipped out at a 45 degree angle but it only held 12″ discs and I have mostly 10″ ones. I’ve never seen one like this before and I’ve collected 78’s for decades and it was in really lovely condition, possibly 1930’s.

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