9. "sure, but no more so than other old music" In response to Reply # 0
I grew up listening to oldies with my folks, and at that time oldies was basically pre-1965 pop and rnb and rock and roll.
As I've gotten old, I've been digging more into the 20s and 30s than teh 40s and 50s but still love a lot of the stuff from that period, and I'm still hearing new stuff from time to time which can blow me away.
13. "Memphis Jug Band, Cannon's Jug Stompers" In response to Reply # 10
Henry Thomas Skip James Son House Mississippi John Hurt Frank Stokes Leadbelly Mississippi Sheiks Bill Broonzy/Hokum Boys
and a whole lot of compilations & later field recordings
basically my favorite stuff is material that walks the line between blues, jazz, country and pop... most of it gets classified as blues in retrospect but my favorite stuff usu. doesn't particularly adhere to the blues form and lacks stereotypical 'blues' elements. Of course, I love the straight ahead blues numbers too
16. "Anthology of American Folk Music" In response to Reply # 13 Tue Oct-09-12 06:11 PM by kajsidog
if you don't have this I highly recommend...Alan Lomax scoured the country (30's - 40's i believe) recording music to preserve it...was released on cd in the late 90's I think. Moby went sample crazy with it to create his Play album.
17. "you're conflating things here... hairsplitting ensues" In response to Reply # 16
>if you don't have this I highly recommend...Alan Lomax >scoured the country (30's - 40's i believe) recording music to >preserve it...was released on cd in the late 90's I think.
the Anthology of American Folk Music was compiled by a guy named Harry Smith, and released by Moe Asch's Folkways Records label. All the songs on it (as crazy as it seems) were commercial recordings cut between 1926, when the advent of electronic recording procedures made better sound quality available, and I think 1932 or 34, when Depression-era cuts in the recording industry made old-time, ethnic and blues recordings more scarce. All the cuts were from 78s in Smith's personal collection. Interestingly, permission to re-release was never secured from the original labels, so its release was probably illegal according to copyright law.
Lomax wasn't involved in the Anthology, but he did a shitload of other stuff to preserve regional & ethnic musical traditions during the same time period, including lots of field recordings.
A 4th volume from Smith's collection, apparently originally intended to accompany the original 3 volumes from 1952, was issued in the late 1990s by Revenant (label curated by the late John Fahey). V4 extends up to 1940.
The Anthology features a lot of the guys I mentioned above (if not all of them) and is the first place I heard incredible songs like Feather Bed (Cannon's Jug Stompers), KC Moan (Memphis JB), I Got Mine (Frank Stokes).
>Moby went sample crazy with it to create his Play album.
Moby did use a lot of Lomax field recording samples on Play. None of them came from the Anthology of American Folk Music though.
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