“I’m Goin’ Home” (Patton), 40
“I’m So Glad” (James), 57
Indian Joe’s (Jazz Record Center; Big Joe’s), New York, 117–21, 122, 125, 130, 131–32
“It’s Right Here for You (If You Don’t Get It . . . ’Taint No Fault of Mine)” (Smith), 68
“I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground” (Lunsford), 139
Jackson, Elliot, 27, 28–29
James, Skip, 13, 19–21, 27, 28, 57, 62, 77, 79, 128, 180, 182
Janet (Patton collector), 99, 100–1
jazz, 16, 22, 29, 53, 54–55, 67, 73, 116, 123, 124–25, 199
Jazz Record Center (Big Joe’s; Indian Joe’s), New York, 117–21, 122, 125, 130, 131–32
Jazz Record Collectors’ Bash, 25–29, 42
Jefferson, Blind Lemon, 48, 69–70, 99, 101, 102–4, 236
Jennings, Waylon, 5
Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders, 89
Johnson, Blind Willie, 33, 237
Johnson, Bunk, 118
Johnson, Earl, 73, 159
Johnson, James Weldon, 37
Johnson, Lonnie, 182
Johnson, Robert, 16, 40, 58, 124, 127, 129, 130, 183–84
Johnson, Tommy, 60, 79
Jolson, Al, 68
Jones, Matilda Sissieretta Joyner, 206
Journey, 142
“K.C. Blues” (Hutchison), 213
Kaili, David, 89
Kapp, Jack, 78
Kaufman, Pete, 120, 127
Kemp, Mark, 211
Kennedy, Rick, 207
Kent, Don, 146, 209
Kentucky Thorobreds, 73
“Kicking in My Sleep Blues” (Brown), 58
King, Christopher, 31–52
background of, 31–32, 33–34
Bussard visit with, 189–94, 197–205, 212–15
as collector, 32–33, 34–39, 40–44, 57, 59, 61, 88, 116, 146, 190–91, 197, 207, 209, 231
as engineer and producer, 39–40, 151–52, 185, 194–97, 240
Hillsville Market trip with, 41–42, 44–52, 115, 218
“King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O” (Parker), 149–50
King of the Delta Blues Singes (Columbia), 183
King, Les, 33, 190
Klatzko, Bernie, 55, 127, 130, 182, 209
Komara, Edward, 77
“La Danseuse” (Gaspard and Lachney), 38, 197
“Lament from Epirus” (Zoumbas), 197
“Last Kind Words Blues” (Wiley), 36, 37–38, 43, 77
“Lili Marleen” (German pop song), 186
“Lion Sleeps Tonight, The” (Tokens), 222
“List of American Folk Songs on Commercial Records” (Lomax), 128–29, 142
Lachney, Delma, 38, 197
Laibly, Arthur, 77
Laughing Record (Okeh), 185, 238
LeBlanc, Eric, 218
Led Zeppelin, 15, 184
Legacy Locker, 35
LeJeune, Angelas, 212, 213–14
Lenny (diver), 82, 92–93
Lewis, Furry, 59, 240–41
Library of Congress, 89, 128–29, 137, 163
Library of the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, New York, 147, 148–51
Linda, Solomon, 222
Linden, David J., 227–31
Little Wonder discs, 52
Lomax, Alan, 128–29, 142, 156, 164
Lomax, John, 210
London label, 222
“Lonely Cowboy, The” (Miles), 159–60
Long Cleve Reed and Little Harvey Hull, the Down Home Boys, 209
Long Gone Sound Productions, 32, 190
“Lord I’m the True Vine” (Eddie Head and His Family), 49
Lua, Pale K., 89
Lunsford, Bascom Lamar, 139
Lupica, Mike, 3
Lyman, Harold, 65
Mack, Angela, 79, 95–96, 105–07, 108, 111, 218
Macon, Uncle Dave, 135, 140, 158, 208, 220
Mahlin, Peter, 240
Malone, Bill, 145
Mama, I’ll Be Long Gone (Ardoin), 41
“M&O Blues” (Brown), 58
“Ma Rainey’s Mystery Record” (Rainey), 73
Marcus, Greil, 137, 141–42, 153, 240
Mardi Gras Indian chants, 239
Marsh, Orlando, 70
masters of recordings, 164, 209
Milwaukee River as possible resting place of, 78, 79–80, 84, 91–92, 93–94, 107–11
Paramount’s pressing plant using, 70–72, 80, 96, 100, 102, 105, 110, 151–52
plant closing and disposition of, 77–79
storage and survival of, 11, 20, 70, 78, 183
matrix (positive master), 71
Mayrent, Sherry, 222–23
“Mbube”( Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds), 222
McGee, Dennis, 197
McGee, Rev. F. W., 142
McGhee, Stick, 49
McGonigal, Mike, 156
McKune, James, 121–31
as collector, 54, 121–27, 128, 130–31, 223
disposition of collection of, 130, 145, 162
Mhiripiri, John, 148
Miles, Arthur, 159–60
Miller, Christine, 65, 66
Miller, Glenn, 55, 124, 238
Miller, Steve, 48
Millis, Robert, 174–75
Milner, Greg, 66
“Miss Emma Liza” (Blake), 113–15
“Mississippi Bottom Blues” (Bailey), 57, 60, 63
Mississippi Sheiks, 77
“Mon Chere Bebe Creole” (McGee and Courville), 197
Moneyhunt, Levi, 45–46
“Moon Going Down” (Patton), 77
Morton, Jelly Roll, 190
mother (positive master), 71
MP3s, 3, 14, 17, 150, 177, 224, 239
Muir, John, 44
Murphy, Everett, 69
Musarugwa, August, 221, 222
“My Buddy Blind Papa Lemon” (Hill), 102–4
“My Old Kentucky Home” (Burnett), 160
Nagoski, Ian, 179–85
on collecting, 179–80, 181–82
as collector, 174, 179–82, 184–85, 188
Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, 135, 143–44
National Barn Dance (radio program), 19
negative masters, 71
Nevins, Richard, 14, 18, 20, 22, 77, 114, 126, 127, 146–47, 173
“Newport Blues” (Cincinnati Jug Band), 151
Newport Folk Festival, 19
New York Public Library, 145, 146, 147, 148–51, 240
New York Recording Laboratories, 67
New York Times, 104, 121, 173, 229
“Nickety Nackety Now Now Now” (Parker), 19
Noah, 119
Norfolk Quartette, 101
Norman, Bob, 135
Nugent, Ted, 5
“NuGrape Song, The” (jingle), 220
“O Black and Unknown Bards” (Johnson), 37
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), 18, 224–25
obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), 224–25, 226
Odum, Howard, 210
Okeh Electric Records Company, 17
Okeh Records, 68, 156, 185, 213
Old Hat Records, 113–14, 173
“Old Lady and the Devil” (Bill and Belle Reed), 146
Olsson, Bengt, 240–41
Opika Pende (Dust-to-Digital), 177
“Original Stack O’Lee Blues” (Long Cleve Reed and Little Harvey Hull, the Down Home Boys), 209–12
Origin Jazz Library label, 182
O’Rourke, Jim, 27
Ostermann, Steve, 99, 100–01
Owens, Marshall, 102, 104
Palmer, Robert, 74
Paramount Records, 66–79, 96–98, 99–106, 107, 114, 129, 151, 206, 207, 239–40
race records by, 68–70, 72, 104, 207
studio of, 19, 36–37, 75, 77, 79
pressing plant of, 70–72, 77–79, 92, 96, 100–3
releases (78s) by, 19, 37, 48, 53, 57–58, 59, 68, 70–73, 74–75, 77, 78–79, 84, 91, 98, 10
0, 102, 103, 107, 112, 113, 125, 126, 218
Paramount Walk of Fame, 106
Parker, Charlie, 135
Parker, Chubby, 18–19, 149–50
Patton, Charley, 11, 27–28, 40, 41, 57, 58, 59–60, 73–77, 79, 99, 101–2, 106, 107, 125, 126, 127, 128, 133, 182, 218
Pavement, 5
Paxton, Jerron (Blind Boy Paxton), 235–38
Peg Leg Howell and His Gang, 220
Perls, Nick, 20, 127, 173
“Perrodin Two Step” (LeJeune), 212
Perry and His Stomp Band, 207
Peter, Paul and Mary, 143
Phillips, Washington, 33, 220
Piedmont blues, 219, 236
Place, Jeff, 145–46, 147
“Pony Blues” (Patton), 58, 59–60, 74–75
Poole, Charlie, 208
Popeye (denizen of Big Joe’s), 119–20
positive masters, 71
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 239
pressing plants, 70–72, 74, 80, 96, 100–3, 105, 110, 151–52
protest singers, 124
Raban, Jonathan, 8
race records, 55, 68–70, 72–73, 104, 126, 179, 207
Raim, Ethel, 135
Rainey, Ma, 73, 105, 126
Rancic, Bill, 107–8
Randle, Bill, 221–22
Rauch, Lloyd, 29
RCA Victor, 145, 187
Really! The Country Blues, 1927–1933 (Origin Jazz Library), 182
Red, Tampa, 180
Reed, Bill and Belle, 146
Reed, Long Cleve, 209
Reeves White County Ramblers, 41
Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, 78–79
Revenant Records, 36, 40, 77, 239
Reynolds, Simon, 62–63, 226
Richards, Keith, 183, 184
“Riding Horse” (Johnson), 79
Rinard, Henry, 120, 122
Rinzler, Ralph, 145, 147, 151
Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, The (Revenant), 239–40
Roane County Ramblers, 220
Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues Singes (Columbia), 183
Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings (Columbia), 184
rockabilly music, 186
“Rock Around the Clock”( Haley), 187
rock music, 77, 128, 184, 204, 224
Rodgers, Jimmie, 155, 158, 185, 201
Rogers, Roy, 161
Rolling Stones, 182
“Rowdy Blues” (Bailey), 57, 58
Royal Crown Cola Company, 220
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (Autry), 162
Salsburg, Nathan, 38, 155–65, 168, 169, 170–71, 173, 174, 175–76, 178, 182, 188, 195
Sand, Steve, 93–94, 108–11
Saunders, George, 195
Schneider, Jake, 206
Schultz, Alfred, 105
Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues (Revenant Records), 40, 73
scuba diving
Beaufort, North Carolina, practice in, 87–92
Lenny as possible guide in, 82, 92–93
Milwaukee River searches using, 79, 81–82, 84, 93–94, 107–11
New York training in, 82–87
Steve Sand’s help in, 93–94, 108–11
Seeger, Mike, 141, 145, 147, 151
Seeger, Pete, 128, 222
“Seventh Street Alley Strut” (Owens), 104
78 Project, 38
78 Quarterly (magazine), 53–54, 57, 66, 99, 102, 103, 120, 121, 206, 207
Shanachie Records, 103
Sheffield, Rob, 138
“She’s Crazy ’Bout Her Lovin’ ” (Mississippi Sheiks), 77
Singh, Rani, 136, 143–44, 148, 152–53
Skillet Lickers, 190
“Skokiaan” (Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band), 221–22, 231
Smith, Alexia, 147
Smith, Bessie, 126
Smith, Eli, 160, 237
Smith, Harry, 133–53
as collector, 133–36, 142, 143–44, 162, 165, 174, 223
compilation of Anthology by, 38, 133–35, 137–41, 143, 145–46, 147, 150–51, 153
disposition of collection of, 145–52
Smith, Mamie, 68
Smithers, Aaron, 218
Smithsonian Institution, 133, 136, 145
Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds, 222
“Somebody Stole My Gal” (Frankie Franko and His Louisianans), 15
Some Cold Rainy Day (East River String Band), 22
“Some These Days I’ll Be Gone” (Patton), 125–26
Sonic Youth, 27, 152
“Sorry Blues” (Brown), 57, 104
Southern Folklife Collection (SFC), 147, 218–19
“Special Rider Blues” (James), 57
Speir, Henry C., 74
“Spike Driver Blues” (Hurt), 140
Spottswood, Dick, 27, 73, 75, 126–27, 146, 156
Springsteen, Bruce, 183
“Stackalee” (Hutchison), 213
“Stack O’Lee Blues” (Hurt), 156–57
“Stagger Lee” (also “Stack O’Lee”; folk song), 209–11
Steamboat Joe & His Laffen’ Clarinet, 207
Steiner, John, 77, 78–79
Steketee, Gail, 225
Stephany, Henry, 102
Stetka, Bret, 84–88, 90–92, 108–11, 185, 186, 188, 190, 215
Strachwitz, Chris, 173
Sullivan, John Jeremiah, 37, 173
Summers, Lawrence, 229
Supper, M. A., 67–68
“Sur le Borde de l’Eau” (Gaspard), 36, 38
Taggart, Blind Joe and Emma, 237
Taylor, Eva, 126
Taylor, Jeffrey, 174
Teach, Edward “Blackbeard,” 88
Tefteller, John, 96–107, 114–15
as collector, 59, 60, 79, 97–102, 104, 106–7, 114–15
Paramount Records and, 80, 96–97, 99–102
“Tell Her to Do Right” (Mississippi Sheiks), 77
test pressings, 15, 67–68, 71, 196
“Texas Blues Part Two” (Owens), 104
Theme Time Radio Hour (radio show), 20
Third Man Records, 239–40
Thomas, Elvie, 37
Thomas, Henry, 41, 182
Thomasa, Michael, 191
throat singing, 159–60
“Times Has Done Got Hard” (Hill), 103
Tokens, 222
Tompkins Square label, 35, 160, 174, 179
Tone Tests, 66
To What Strange Place (Tompkins Square), 179
Traum, Happy, 143
“Traveling Riverside Blues” (Johnson), 183
University of Chicago, Regenstein Library, 78–79
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 218, 219
“Valse de la Louisiane” (LeJeune), 212
van der Tuuk, Alex, 67, 69, 72, 75, 78, 80, 96, 111, 218
Vestine, Henry, 28
Victor Records, 49, 67, 89, 185
Victrola Favorites (Dust-to-Digital), 174–75
Victrola phonographs, 174, 212, 220, 225, 238
Vintage Jazz Mart (magazine), 26
VJM Record Grading System, 26–27, 28–29
Vocalion Records, 38, 55, 197
Vreede, Max, 127
Wahle, Don, 156–71
as collector, 155, 157–58, 161–62, 165–71, 195
disposition of collection of, 155–65, 173
Waits, Tom, 239
Wald, Elijah, 179–80, 182, 183
“Walk Right In” (Cannon Jug Stompers), 15
Walsh, Arthur, 65
Ward, Jonathan, 174, 176–78, 182, 188
Wardlow, Gayle Dean, 102, 125, 127
Washboard Sam, 49
Weaver, Sylvester, 49, 52
Weavers, 222
Weinstock, Bob, 118
Weiss, Steve, 147, 219
Weize, Richard, 185–88
western music, 159–60, 186
Wellman, Jack, 161
Whelan, Pete, 53–58
background of, 54–55
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as collector, 53–54, 55, 56–58, 61, 125, 127, 182, 207
on Clauberg’s Jazz Record Center, 118, 120, 122
on McKune, 122, 126, 140
“When the Roses Bloom for the Bootlegger” (Earl Johnson and His Clodhoppers), 159
“When You Got a Good Friend” (Johnson), 183
Where You Been (Dinosaur Jr.), 3
Whistance, Gail, 130, 131
Whistance, Jack, 122, 123, 126, 130–31
Whistance, MaryEllen, 131, 132
White, Jack, 239
Whiteman, Paul, 125
Wiley, Geeshie, 36–38, 43, 77, 191–92
Wiley, Geoff, 236
Wilkins, Robert, 59
Williams, Clarence, 114
Williams, Hank, 52, 214
Williams, J. Mayo, 68–69, 77, 206–7
Williamson Brothers and Curry, 140
Willner, Hal, 143, 152
“Wimoweh” (Weavers), 222
“Window Blues” (Brown), 57–58
Winter, Gregory, 25
Wisconsin Chair Company (WCC), 66, 67–68, 71–72, 240
Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard (Tompkins Square), 160–61, 163, 170, 173
World War II, 77, 78
Wyatt, Marshall, 113, 115, 173
Yazoo Records, 14, 17, 20, 22, 126, 173
Zimmerman, Art, 29
Zoumbas, Alexis, 194–97
Zwigoff, Terry, 20, 182
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