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Encyclopedia > Joe Bussard

Joe Bussard (born Joseph E. Bussard, Jr. in Frederick, Maryland, July 11, 1936) is an American collector of 78-rpm records. Frederick, Frederik, or Frideric is a common male forename. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour (1967) as a 33 â…“ LP vinyl record A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc. ...


Based in Frederick, Maryland, Bussard maintains a collection of more than 25,000 records, primarily of American folk, gospel, and blues from the 1920s and 1930s, which is believed to be the largest such collection in the world. Location in Maryland Coordinates: Country United States State Maryland County Frederick Founded 1745 Mayor Brian Artusio (R) Board of Alderman Marcia Hall (D) Alan E. Imhoff (R) David P. Koontz (D) Donna K. Ramsburg (D) C. Paul Smith (R) Area    - City 52. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ... For other uses, see Gospel (disambiguation). ... Blues music redirects here. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Antarctica Australia Africa Asia Europe North America South America Middle East Caribbean Central Asia East Asia North Asia South Asia Southeast Asia SW. Asia China Australasia Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia Central America Latin America Northern America Americas C. Africa E. Africa N. Africa Southern Africa W. Africa C. Europe E. Europe...


He was the subject of a documentary film, Desperate Man Blues, and his collection was mined for a compilation CD, Down in the Basement. He has gleefully shared his collection, which includes many only-known-copies of records (not to mention best-known-copies) with numerous reissue labels as well as with individuals for whom he has taped recordings from his collection for a nominal sum for decades.


From 1956 until 1970, he ran the last 78 rpm record label, Fonotone, which was dedicated to the release of new recordings of old-time music. Among these were the first-ever recordings by guitarist John Fahey, as well as hundreds of other performers. A five-CD anthology of Fonotone releases was issued in 2005 by Dust-to-Digital. John Fahey ( February 28, 1939–February 22, 2001) was an American guitarist and composer, and one of the first guitarists to perform solo instrumental steel-string acoustic guitar. ...


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Joe Bussard (8092 words)
Bussard had begun to realize that it was all good, from jug band stomps to sacred-harp hymns, as long as it came from the '20s and '30s‹that magical era.
Bussard is universally acknowledged as a breed apart, someone who has literally dedicated his life to his pursuit, family and friends be damned.
Joe's yelling at her and she's yelling at Joe, and he shouts, 'I hope they put those 78s in your casket and bury you with them!' She was probably in her 70s or 80s.
PopMatters Music Feature | One Mic, One Take, One Dollar: The World of Fonotone Records (1641 words)
Bussard followed the music wherever it took him; one great spiritual, "My Savior Died for Me" by brothers W.R. and W.E. Barnes, was recorded in a basement boiler room at Eastern Kentucky College, where the Barneses worked as janitors, in 1964.
When Bussard recalls telling Fahey to "sing like an old fl guy and sing rough as hell and we'll call you Blind Thomas", he remembers it as "a joke, really", but what separates it from some of the flface minstrel songs preserved at The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project is difficult to ascertain.
Joe Bussard's notion of old-time 1920s music ("the purest form of music, there wasn't any outside influence or commercialism") is, of course, demonstrably false, but like Christmas or the Fourth of July, the Fonotone world is an invented tradition whose artifice need not cancel out the enjoyment it can offer.
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