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Do Not Sell At Any Price

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by Amanda Petrusich


  Frank Hutchison, “K.C. Blues” / “Hell Bound Train,” Okeh 45452, 1929.

  Skip James, “Devil Got My Woman” / “Cypress Grove Blues,” Paramount 13088, 1931.

  Skip James, “Drunken Spree” / “What Am I to Do Blues,” Paramount 13111, 1931.

  Blind Lemon Jefferson, “That Black Snake Moan” / “Stocking Feet Blues,” Paramount 12407, 1926.

  Robert Johnson, “Cross Road Blues” / “Ramblin’ on My Mind,” Vocalion 03519, 1937.

  Robert Johnson, “From Four Until Late” / “Hell Hound on My Trail,” Vocalion 03623, 1937.

  Tommy Johnson, “Alcohol and Jake Blues” / “Riding Horse,” Paramount 12950, 1929.

  Angelas LeJeune, “Perrodin Two Step” / “Valse de la Louisiane,” Brunswick 369, 1929.

  Dennis McGee and Sady Courville, “Mon Chere Bebe Creole” / “Madame Young Donnez Moi Votre Plus Jolie Blonde,” Vocalion 5319, 1929.

  Arthur Miles, “The Lonely Cowboy Part 1” / “The Lonely Cowboy Part 2,” Victor 40156, 1929.

  Chubby Parker, “Davey Crockett” / “His Parents Haven’t Seen Him Since,” Conqueror 7895, 1931.

  Chubby Parker, “Nickety Nackety Now Now Now” / “Whoa Mule Whoa,” Silvertone 5011, 1927.

  Charley Patton, “High Water Everywhere Part 1” / “High Water Everywhere Part 2,” Paramount 12909, 1929.

  Charley Patton, “Mississippi Boweavil Blues” / “Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues,” Paramount 12805, 1929.

  Charley Patton, “Pony Blues” / “Banty Rooster Blues,” Paramount 12792, 1929.

  Charley Patton, “Some These Days I’ll Be Gone” / “Frankie and Albert,” Paramount 13110, 1929.

  Ma Rainey, “Ma Rainey’s Mystery Record” / “Honey, Where You Been So Long?,” Paramount 12200, 1924.

  Long Cleve Reed and Little Harvey Hull, the Down Home Boys, “Original Stack O’Lee Blues” / “Mama You Don’t Know How,” Black Patti 8030, 1927.

  Sylvester Weaver, “Guitar Blues” / “Guitar Rag,” Okeh 8109, 1923.

  Geeshie Wiley, “Last Kind Words Blues” / “Skinny Leg Blues,” Paramount 12951, 1930.

  Alexis Zoumbas, “Tzamara Arvanitiko” / “Syrtos Sta Dyo,” Columbia 56094-F, 1928.

  Compilations on Long-Playing Vinyl

  The Country Blues, Folkways, 1959.

  Country Blues Encores 1927–1935, Origin Jazz Library, 1965.

  The Mississippi Blues, 1927–1940, Origin Jazz Library, 1963.

  Really! The Country Blues, 1927–1933, Origin Jazz Library, 1962.

  The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records Vol. 1, Revenant, 2013 (LP and MP3).

  Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues Singers, Columbia, 1961.

  The Rural Blues: A Study of the Vocal and Instrumental Resources, RBF, 1960.

  Compilations on Compact Disc

  Aimer et Perdre: To Love & to Lose Songs, 1917–1934, Tompkins Square, 2012*.

  American Primitive, Vol. I: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926–1936), Revenant, 1997.

  American Primitive, Vol. II: Pre-War Revenants (1897–1939), Revenant, 2005.

  The Anthology of American Folk Music, Smithsonian Folkways, 1997 (CD reissue).

  Five Days Married & Other Laments, Angry Mom, 2013*.

  Fonotone: Frederick, Maryland 1956–1969, Dust-to-Digital, 2005.

  Goodbye, Babylon, Dust-to-Digital, 2003.

  Skip James: Hard Time Killin’ Floor, Yazoo, 2005.

  Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings, Columbia, 1990*.

  Mama, I’ll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amédé Ardoin, Tompkins Square, 2011.

  Masters of the Delta Blues, Yazoo, 1991.

  Mississippi John Hurt: 1928 Sessions, Yazoo, 1990.

  Opika Pende: Africa at 78 rpm, Dust-to-Digital, 2011.

  The Return of the Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, Yazoo, 2012.

  Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton, Revenant, 2001.

  The Secret Museum of Mankind, Yazoo, 1995–1998.

  The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, Yazoo, 2006.

  Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days, Dust-to-Digital, 2008.

  To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916–1929, Tompkins Square, 2011*.

  Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, and End Time Music, 1923–1936, Tompkins Square, 2012*.

  Alexis Zoumbas: Lament For Epirus, 1926-1928, Angry Mom, 2014*.

  (* Denotes a release that is also available on LP.)

  Index

  African Dance Band of the Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia, 221

  African recordings, 176–77, 221–22

  “Aimer et Perdre” (Joe and Cleoma Falcon), 33

  Aimer et Perdre (Tompkins Square), 35

  Albanian folk tradition, 36, 43, 190–92, 196

  “Albanian Nightingale” (Zoumbas), 197

  “Alcohol and Jake Blues” (Johnson), 79

  Allen, Ray, 145

  Amato, Pasquale, 29

  American Folklife Center (AFC), Library of Congress, 163, 164

  American Primitive, Vol. I and Vol. II (Revenant Records), 36

  Anal Staircase, The (Coil), 15

  Andersen, Lale, 186

  Anderson, Gene, 47, 48–49

  Anthology Film Archives, New York, 148

  Anthology of American Folk Music, The (Smithsonian Folkways), 136–43

  categories in, 138, 165

  cultural impact of, 136–37

  folk revival and, 142–43, 182

  Guthrie on, 134

  range of music in, 38, 133–34, 139–40, 213

  responses to, 141–42, 144, 152

  Smith’s compilation of, 133–34, 135, 137–41, 142, 145–46, 147, 150–51, 153

  success of, 145, 152–53, 156

  Antique Phonograph Music Program (radio program), 233–34, 235

  Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress, 163

  Ardoin, Amédé, 41, 191

  Armstrong, Louis, 115, 123, 222

  Asch, Moe, 134–35, 145–46

  Ashford, R. T., 69, 74

  Asperger’s syndrome, 225–26, 228, 229

  autism, 39, 225, 226, 228, 229

  Autry, Gene, 161–62, 166–68, 169, 201

  Avery, Tex, 238

  Bailey, Kid, 57–61, 63

  “Banty Rooster Blues” (Patton), 74

  Barbecue Bob (Robert Hicks), 128, 180

  Baron-Cohen, Simon, 228–29

  Barrett, Edward Jenner, 207

  Barry, John M., 76

  Barth, Bill, 28

  Baudrillard, Jean, 5–6

  Bear Family Records, 185–88

  Beck, 152, 211

  Berliner, Emile, 10

  Big Joe’s (Jazz Record Center; Indian Joe’s), New York, 117–21, 122, 125, 130, 131–32

  “Big Leg Blues” (Hurt), 15, 16, 17

  Bilbyl, Riza, 43

  “Black Bottom” (Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders), 89

  Black Patti label, 206–9, 212

  “Black Snake Moan” (Jefferson), 48

  Blackwood, Dean, 239

  Blake, Blind, 101, 105, 113–15, 218–19, 237, 238

  “Blind Thomas Blues” (Fahey), 199

  Blue Bird label, 67, 72

  bluegrass music, 27, 32, 186, 204

  Blues Mafia, 127–28, 129, 182

  Bostwick, Dorothy Larson, 72

  Bracey, Ishman, 60

  Breaux, Cleoma, 23

  Bristol Sessions, 1927–1928, The (Bear Family), 185

  Broadway label, 67, 72

  Brower, Eden, 9, 14, 22

  Brown, Cecil, 210

  Brown, Ron, 36, 201

  Brown, Willie, 57–61, 63, 104

  Brunnquell, Jim, 94

  Brunswick Records, 57, 59, 67, 77, 161

  Bryan, Sarah, 217–22

  Buckley, Jeff, 107

  “Buddy Won’t You Roll Down the Line” (Macon), 140

  Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band, 221–2
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  Burhop, Walter, 106–7

  Burke’s Register of Record Collectors, 166

  Burnett, Dick, 160

  Bussard, Esther, 203–04

  Bussard, Joe, 189–214

  Black Patti records and, 206–09, 212

  as collector, 146, 189–99, 201–14, 237

  Fahey’s work and, 199–200

  Calt, Stephen, 21, 66–67, 69, 80, 125

  “Candy Man Blues” (Hurt), 156, 157

  Cannon Jug Stompers, 15

  Cantwell, Robert, 141

  Cardinal, Roger, 119

  “Careless Love” (Fuller), 129

  Carolina Tar Heels, 140, 155

  Carr, Leroy, 182

  Carson, Fiddlin’ John, 146

  Carter Family, 49, 133, 155, 185, 208

  Catawba Farm Fest, 45–46

  Cat Scratch Fever (Nugent), 5

  Cave, Nick, 152

  Charles, Harry, 73

  Charters, Samuel, 70, 182

  Chicago Defender (newspaper), 72, 75, 99

  “Christopher King Plays Geeshie Wiley” (recording), 38

  Cincinnati Jug Band, 151

  Clapton, Eric, 183

  Clark, Helen, 67

  Clauberg, Big Joe, 118–20, 125, 131–32

  Cofer Brothers, 220

  Cohen, John, 138, 141, 147

  Cohen, Leonard, 183

  Coil, 15

  Coley, Byron, 28

  collecting

  beginning of hobby of, 119

  Dunner on, 22–23, 161

  Heneghan on, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 21, 23, 82

  King on, 32–33, 34, 42

  Nagoski on, 179–80, 181–82

  obsessive nature of, 18, 224–25, 226

  possible reasons for, 4–5, 21, 22–23, 32–33, 62–63, 179, 223–24

  prices of 78s and, 11, 48, 79, 97, 123–24

  Reynolds on, 62–63

  seduction of the chase in, 13, 19–20, 24, 36, 48, 99, 100–4, 169–70

  Smith on, 136

  sources in, 12, 15, 41–42, 46–52, 81, 97, 99, 100–1, 113–155, 117–21, 125, 131–32, 166–68

  Tefteller on, 97

  Ward on, 177, 178

  Wahle on, 165

  Weize on perspective in, 187–88

  Whelan on, 54–55

  collector biographies

  Sarah Bryan, 217–22

  Joe Bussard, 189–214

  Christopher King, 31–52

  James McKune, 121–31

  Ian Nagoski, 179–85

  Jerron Paxton, 235–38

  Harry Smith, 133–53

  John Tefteller, 96–107, 114–15

  Don Wahle, 156–71

  Pete Whelan, 53–58

  collectors

  archival value of recordings and, 11

  authenticity and, 199–200

  as authorities, 62–63

  bartering and trading among, 38, 97, 166–67, 203, 213

  Blues Mafia among, 127–28, 129, 187

  context and, 42–43, 44, 62, 139, 163, 169, 175, 176, 177, 191, 230

  field recordings and, 163–64

  grading system used by, 26–27

  historical aspects of recordings and, 12–13, 21, 61, 62, 96, 127, 175, 177, 225, 237–38

  hoarding and, 5, 119, 224–25

  impulse to master what masters you by, 62–63, 119

  Noah as first, 119

  preservationist work of, 12–13, 121, 126–27, 188, 234, 237–38

  reaction to Anthology of American Folk Music by, 141–42

  reasons for collecting given by, 4–5, 21, 22–23, 32–33, 179, 223–24

  responses to music by, 16–17, 23–24, 32–33, 38–39, 57, 63, 103, 123, 125, 197

  sharing of information by, 6–7, 185–86, 200

  stereotype of, 4

  subculture of, 4–5

  women as, 222–23

  Collins, Sam, 122

  Columbia Records, 67, 68, 89, 145, 183–84, 190, 203

  Conte, Pat, 160, 174

  Corso, Gregory, 135

  Country Blues, The (Folkways), 182

  country blues music, 15, 16, 27–28, 43, 47, 52, 57, 73, 79, 95, 125, 128, 159, 182, 185, 199, 204, 214, 224, 226, 238

  Courville, Sady, 197

  cowboy music, 159–60

  “Crazy Blues” (Smith), 68

  Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Pavement), 5

  “Cross Road Blues” (Johnson), 58

  Crumb, Robert, 12, 18, 135, 182

  Cumella, Michael, 233–35, 238–39, 240

  Curry, Ben, 102, 140

  “Daddy Blues” (Hunter), 68

  Dalhart, Vernon, 204

  “Davey Crockett” (Parker), 19

  Davis, Gary, 236, 238

  Dean, Eddie, 28, 203–4, 205

  Death, Blind Joe (name used by John Fahey), 28, 199, 237

  de Bry, Theodor, 138

  Decca Records, 78, 222

  Delaney, Mattie, 60

  Delta blues, 60, 73–74, 76, 183–84, 219

  Dennett, Fred, 207

  “Denomination Blues” (Phillips), 22

  Denver, John, 51

  “Devil Got My Woman” (James), 13, 19–21, 57, 77

  “Devil’s Haircut” (Beck), 211

  “Diamond Joe” (Cofer Brothers), 220

  Dickerson, Aletha, 69

  Dinosaur Jr., 3

  “Dissatisfied Blues” (Blake), 113–14, 115

  Dixie String Band, 73

  “Don’t Pan Me” (Hunter), 68

  “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” (Journey), 142

  “Down on Me” (Eddie Head and His Family), 49

  “Downhearted Blues” (Hunter), 126

  “Downhearted Blues” (Smith), 126

  “Downhearted Blues” (Taylor), 126

  Dozewiecki, Victor, 166–68

  Driggs, Frank, 183

  “Drunken Spree” (James), 57

  Dunner, Sherwin, 22–24, 161–62

  Dust-to-Digital label, 174, 176, 199

  Dylan, Bob, 20, 143, 183, 211, 237

  Eagle, Bob, 218

  Earl Johnson and His Clodhoppers, 159

  Earle, Eugene, 146, 160, 218

  “Early Morning Blues” (Blake), 219

  East River String Band, 22

  eBay, 19, 79, 97, 99, 157

  Eddie Head and His Family, 49

  Edison, Thomas, 10, 14, 65, 67

  Edison cylinders, 10, 119

  Edison phonographs, 10, 65–66, 225

  Edison Records, 65–66

  Edison Tone Tests, 66

  Edwards, John, 218

  Eigo, Jim, 29

  Eliot, T. S., 162

  Elliott, Ramblin’ Jack, 143, 237

  Elsner, John, 119

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo (pipe organist), 207

  Evans, David, 60

  Excavated Shellac (website), 176–77

  Facebook, 23, 34, 58, 113

  Fahey, John, 27–28, 136–37, 199, 237, 239

  Fairfield, Frank, 174

  Falcon, Joe and Cleoma, 23, 33

  Famous Blue Jay Singers, 102

  Fatsis, Stefan, 240

  “Fe Fe Ponchaux” (Breaux and Falcon), 23

  field recordings, 163–64

  Fields, Arthur, 67

  “Fifty Miles of Elbow Room” (McGee), 142

  Filzen, Sarah, 69, 71, 73, 77

  Five Days Married & Other Laments (Angry Mom), 190–92, 196

  “Flat Wheel Train Blues” (Gay and Wellman), 161

  Flaxer, Hal, 120

  Fludd, Robert, 138

  folk music, 16, 19, 36, 74, 124, 128, 129, 133–34, 135, 136–37, 141–43, 153, 163–64, 169, 182, 186, 190–92, 211

  Folkways Records, 133, 134, 145, 147, 182

  Fonotone (Dust-to-Digital), 199

  Fonotone label, 199

  Ford, Rob, 218

  Foye, Raymond, 144

  Frankie Franko and His Louisianans, 15

  Freeman, Dave, 146

  Freud, Sigmund, 187,
210

  Frost, Randy O., 225

  Fuller, Blind Boy, 49, 129, 157

  “Future Blues” (Brown), 58

  Gallo, Dave, 112

  Gallo Record Company, 221

  Gallotone label, 221, 222

  Garcia, Jerry, 143, 144

  Gardner, Julie, 78

  Gaspard, Blind Uncle, 36, 38, 40, 197, 231

  Gay, Red, 161

  Gegenhuber, Kurt, 139, 140, 141

  General Phonograph Corporation, 68

  Gennett, Fred, 207

  Gennett Records, 74, 122, 129, 207, 209, 211

  Ghost World (film), 20, 182

  Gillespie, Dizzy, 135

  Ginsberg, Allen, 135, 136, 143–44

  “God Don’t Never Change”(Johnson), 33

  Goldsmith, Peter, 134

  “Gonna Die with a Hammer in My Hand” (Williamson Brothers and Curry), 140

  Goodman, Benny, 123, 125

  gospel music, 16, 142, 156, 180, 199, 237

  “Got the Farm Land Blues” (Carolina Tar Heels), 140

  grading system, 26–27

  Grafton, Wisconsin, 95–96, 105–07

  Paramount studio in, 19, 36–37, 75, 77, 79

  Paramount pressing plant in, 70–72, 77–79, 92, 96, 100–03

  “Grandma Blues” (Brown), 57, 104

  Grand Ole Opry, The (radio program), 19

  Grateful Dead, 144, 211

  “Guitar Blues” (Weaver), 49

  “Guitar Rag” (Weaver), 49

  Gustafson, Dean, 192–93

  Guthrie, Woody, 124, 134, 211

  Haley, Bill, 187

  Hamilton, Marybeth, 120, 124–25, 126, 127, 128, 130

  Hammond, John, 183

  Hamp, Johnny, 89

  Handy, W. C., 240

  Harry Smith Project, 152

  Heller, Sig, 75

  “Hell Hound on My Trail”(Johnson), 40, 129

  Heneghan, John, 3, 9–24, 26, 58, 82

  Hiam, Jonathan, 147, 148–49, 150, 151, 240

  Hicks, Robert (Barbecue Bob), 128, 180

  Hicks, Rodger, 46, 47–49, 115

  “High Water Everywhere” (Patton), 75–77

  Hill, King Solomon (name used by Joe Holmes), 102–4, 114

  Hillsville VFW Flea Market and Gun Show, Virginia, 41–42, 46–52, 113, 115, 202, 218

  History Detectives (TV show), 79

  hoarding and, 5, 119, 224–25

  Hohn, Donovan, 50, 51

  Holmes, Joe (known as King Solomon Hill), 102–4, 114

  Honig, Peter, 218, 220–21

  Hoskins, Tom, 156

  House, Son, 58, 60, 77, 79, 105, 127, 182

  How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life (Fahey), 28

  Howell, Peg Leg, 220

  Hull, Little Harvey, 209

  Hunter, Alberta, 68, 126

  Hurt, Mississippi John, 15, 16, 17, 140, 141, 155–57

  Hutchison, Frank, 213

  “If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day” (Johnson), 183

 

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