QUICK! What's on the turntable RIGHT NOW? (2011 Edition)

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good recommendation nerve_pylon!

yes! i mean, it's not Push-People-Out-of-the-Way-OMG-Best. Record. Ever, but for this sort of thing i like it. pretty crowded field, the Neue Kosmische...

yeah yeah i think it's got a good bounce to it!

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Such an awesome cover.

yeah ive actually never seen one where the colors are so vibrant -- looks like someone hipstamatic'ed it

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i got 12 78s in the mail today!

2x Riley Puckett
2x Three Tobacco Tags
2x Blue Sky Boys
Uncle Dave Macon
Emry Arthur
Henry Whitter
2x Skillet Lickers
McMitchen's Melody Men

nice haul!

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like this one

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strange enough, this is my first time ever hearing this one!

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^^ need that

totally in my top 5 LMLtd records

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just quick-jammin "moving pictures for the ear" before i split outta here!

Hey Ian, how much are you paying for these 78's? Do you mainly buy them on ebay? How do you know which ones to buy, is there a book on this kind of music? And mostly importantly are they clean? Sorry for all the questions, maybe there's a 78's thread?

there are a few 78 threads!

the stuff i got today were all pretty much $3-5 with maybe one or two being $6 or $7.
I buy stuff on ebay sometimes, though a lot of ppl do not know how to properly grade or ship 78s. This leads to private auctions (paper & web both) by serious ~78 dudes~. I got this stuff from vmauctions.com, and I'm fairly pleased with the results. A lot of these discs are worn. A lot of them also look worse than they sound. Most of the time when I'm playing them it helps to turn the treble down to cut the surface noise. Bear in mind that some of these records (of the ones I bought, the Uncle Dave, Emry Arthur, and Heny Whitter) are acoustic recordings, and even super clean copies will play with some surface noise. Electrical recordings sound a lot better, for obvious reasons. So the idea of 'clean' is relative. I don't mind some surface noise on the 78s, because it's more of a constant rush of white noise than distinct, distracting tics. In the summer, listening to 78s loud with the fan on, you can easily ignore the noise. But some people will go nuts! A record you can buy in "decent" shape for $5 or $10 will sometimes sell for 5-10x that if it's in "E" shape or better.

There are books, yes. Complete discographies in fact with session personnel, matrix numbers etc. I think the main "country music on record" book is about $50 on Amazon. The definitive volume on ethnic 78s was 9 volumes by Dick Spottswood--very expensive, out of print, etc.

What to buy? It's not the easiest! I've been a fan of old-time music on LP for maybe 6 or 7 years now--LPs on County, Yazoo, Old Homestead, Mamlish, Rounder etc that reissue the vintage 78rpm sides, generally mastered from the best known copies or other nice copies of the records. So I know the artists I like, and I know songs I like, and I know to look for "violin and guitar accompaniment" on the label, telling things like that. The word "yodel." I mostly buy pre-war records, so I end up looking for specific labels & label designs. In my experience, the yellow/blue bluebird labels sound nice, as do the later solid blue bluebird labels. Victor scroll labels tend to be a bit noisier than black-label Columbia electricals, Montomgery Ward records sound nice, even with some visible groove damage (manifests as a visible graying of the groove) or scuffing etc.

78s are a fun hobby but i does get expensive.

artists i collect on 78rpm:
ernest stoneman, kelly harrell, riley puckett, gid tanner & the skiller lickers, charlie poole, the three tobacco tags, the delmore brothers, the allen brothers, the blue sky boys, the carter family, riley puckett. all pretty popular artists who have a lot of records you don't need to spend an arm & a leg to get. Roy Harvey, otoh, was one of Charlie Poole's guitarists and cut some hot guitar solo/duo records which are rare & expensive. lots of times i will find things i have never heard of though--got a record a month or so ago by "nicholson's players" which was basically just a front-porch string band, both sides are medleys i think, with banjo, fiddle, guitar, jew's harp.

i like mandolins, harmony vocals, hot pickin, fiddle breakdowns.

Thanks Ian, that's was an education. My girlfriend has a Victrola and mostly jazz 78's combined with my love of country and blues has spurred my interest in 78's. I'm going to keep an eye out for those books. For the longest time I assumed these records couldn't be found for cheap anymore.

my general rule of thumb for 78s: if it's on a label i 'trust' (to have good sound quality) i will buy something graded as V, which is a worn record. This keeps my prices down. Usually records graded as V are acceptable listens to me.

check out vmauctions.com! he has a lot of things up on the website, from a few different sellers, at set-sale prices.

Also I feel dumb, because in my record hunting through the years, I have always passed over boxes of 78's assuming they were wreaked beyond recognition. But the other I started thinking about the wreaked 45's I have that still play fine with a little surface noise and I figured 78's might be the same.

78s play better than 45s imo.

I listen to my tape of the radio station's copy of On the Other Ocean all the time in my car, very soothing.

besssssssssssst

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Faceplant is the one half of Peaking Lights. This is a good one, Pete, check it out.

It's a split 12" the image is of both sides duh

almost bought it at aQ yesterday -- ill grab it next chance i get!

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Would love a copy of that on lp.

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i admit i lied about the cover art

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man i love the lodger.
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iskra reissue; this time not lying about the cover art...

carter family 78s rock block

can the circle be unbroken
keep on the sunny side / the old gospel ship
lulu wall / sweet fern

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oh man the a-side of this one kicks ASS

umm ok b-side too.

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whew so glad for that translation at the bottom of the cover

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never heard him! is that a serious problem?