Down in the Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s 1926-1937

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Release date: 2003-06-17

Formats: Original recording remastered

Tracks: Disc 0:

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

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

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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