Old Time Folk Music

Yesterday started a job up in Patcham end of the city to do with perceived cost of calls from mobiles and landline telephones on behalf of Ofcom. Finishing off today as the forecast is good today but the weather crap and full of showers tomorrow.

Woke up with stomach cramps but a fizzy coke i have just finished drinking seems to have relieved it somewhat. I rarely get stomach ache so it did rather surprise me, as usually i have a constitution of an ox! (So excuse the burps!)

ILast night watched the documentary on BBC 4 "Desparate Man Blues" , a look at 78 collector Joe Bussard ,who has probably the highest quality and rarest collection of old pre Second World war slabs of shellac,including the rarest old time folk 78 on the Black Patti label. All from the 20's,30's and 40's but  mostly pre-war.
BBC 4 are currently doing a Folk America series,and part one of the series was shown last night as well.

Joe Bussard on Charlie Patton

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Yo man,cool!

Bussard - King of 78s

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Here is some of this amazing curator of old time folk and blues.

Yo and behold

Yo and behold an old comment from some other site that stated my site here is "in it's purest form". ,amd that "Jottings from the Wired is the real deal, all other music web sites are the bicarbonate of soda in the mix." Well modesty forbids me to comment on it. I will say that this was around the time of the brillo name used for my local DJ nights.Well since i have not been to  a London brillo for ages it is a moot point.