Comments on: Goodbye, Avalon http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/2008/04/23/goodbye-avalon/ Washington City Paper's music blog. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:35:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Harris http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/2008/04/23/goodbye-avalon/#comment-3354 Harris Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:05:59 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/2008/04/23/goodbye-avalon/#comment-3354 The Old Revolutions www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=27037 The Old Revolutions

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]]> By: Harris http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/2008/04/23/goodbye-avalon/#comment-3350 Harris Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:18:00 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/2008/04/23/goodbye-avalon/#comment-3350 If not a link, let's not forget there also was a full-page CP article written by former Arts Editor Glenn Dixon called The Old Revolution (Wash City Paper, Sept 5-11, 2003). It reviewed the Old Hat Records' release Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s 1926-1937, and began... The life of the obsessive collector of old 78s isn't exactly like that of a seeker for the Holy Grail. There is no one cup that will quench such a person - there are thousands, and he thirsts for them all. There's no point in setting his heart on finding every one of them. Too many discs exist as single known copies, and too often, that copy belongs to somebody who won't part with it. Of course, anyone who strives to convince the world that music went to hell sometime between the Depression and World War II has a taste for the quixotic, so he won't easily be dissuaded. If not a link, let’s not forget there also was a full-page CP article written by former Arts Editor Glenn Dixon called The Old Revolution (Wash City Paper, Sept 5-11, 2003). It reviewed the Old Hat Records’ release Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard’s Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s 1926-1937, and began…

The life of the obsessive collector of old 78s isn’t exactly like that of a seeker for the Holy Grail. There is no one cup that will quench such a person - there are thousands, and he thirsts for them all. There’s no point in setting his heart on finding every one of them. Too many discs exist as single known copies, and too often, that copy belongs to somebody who won’t part with it. Of course, anyone who strives to convince the world that music went to hell sometime between the Depression and World War II has a taste for the quixotic, so he won’t easily be dissuaded.

]]> By: Steve Kiviat http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/2008/04/23/goodbye-avalon/#comment-3297 Steve Kiviat Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:10:24 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/2008/04/23/goodbye-avalon/#comment-3297 Elijah Wild's book on Robert Johnson (that covers much more) points out how many artists popular with African_American audiences at that time got ignored by the folk/blues hunters. Elijah Wild’s book on Robert Johnson (that covers much more) points out how many artists popular with African_American audiences at that time got ignored by the folk/blues hunters.

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