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Many of the early country blues recordings we love today exist because, in the 1950s and early '60s, an intrepid group of oddball record collectors went door-to-door in Black neighborhoods the rural South offering to buy old records. Some of them took these records and started small, independent, record labels to get this music to the modern public. Here is the story of three of these releases.
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Many of the early country blues recordings we love today exist because, in the 1950s and early '60s, an intrepid group of oddball record collectors went door-to-door in Black neighborhoods the rural South offering to buy old records. Some of them took these records and started small, independent, record labels to get this music to the modern public. Here is the story of three of these releases.
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