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4.0 out of 5 stars
For hard core OTM fans only, July 2, 2008
This review is from: Paramount Old Time Recordings (Audio CD)
JSP records out of the UK has produced a series of box sets of pre-war American blues, jazz and old time music(OTM)that are marvels for their state-of-the-art remastering of old 78s. Their task with this box set and another Paramount blues collection was daunting indeed -- there are no Paramount masters extant, only scratchy old records to work from. JSP has cleaned up the recordings as best they could but the result is uneven from pretty darn clear to pretty darn awful. However, I still rate this collection highly based on the performances by these largely lesser known OTM artists and are thankful that JSP has reclaimed these songs which would otherwise be lost forever. People with an interest in OTM perhaps should look to other collections by JSP where the recordings are more uniformly lucid should as Mountain Blues and Serenade in the Mountains, both excellent.
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