There's this box set of like *really* early American popular music (mainly vocal pop, I think, it's not a Harry Smith deal at any rate)...I've seen it in stores myself, but the title eludes me, which is unfortunate, as I have decided that I MUST HAVE IT. I seem to remember someone (Matos?) listing it as one of his fav albums ever. I know this isn't much information, but does anyone know what I'm talking about?
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)
It might be this (review from Xgau's site):
AMERICAN POP: AN AUDIO HISTORY (West Hill Audio Archives) Nine CDs spanning 1893-1946, it'll set you back a hundred bucks, and it's not really what it says it is, cheating Tin Pan Alley, John Philip Sousa, George M. Cohan, Ruth Etting, Broadway, Northerners, Ukulele Ike, Gene Austin, humor, Hollywood, Fred Astaire, Glen Gray, Glenn Miller, the Andrews Sisters, and anybody who doesn't sing-a de English, among others. Nevertheless, it's an endless delight, almost 11 hours where Harry Smith's Anthology is four-something, and a powerful illustration of the antibiz aesthetic in which the best popular music derives from and is aimed back at subcultural audiences the artist can smell and touch. Play any disc and you'll soon be rummaging around for the first booklet, where all the track listings are. So that's James Reese Europe! Ella Mae Morse! Geeshie Wiley! Only isn't it Geechie? And who the hell are Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette? A
― Not that Chuck, Friday, 14 November 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)
yah,
this thing. Still languishing on my want list, dammit.
― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 14 November 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)
three months pass...
I just picked
this 15CD set up for TEN EUROS!!! in Hamburg. The compiling is apparently pretty erratic but there's still some great stuff on it.
I'll be posting one track from each disc on PopNose, I think.
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)