Oh, man. This just makes my fingers itch it sounds so good. What a treat...
Congratulations! I'm really glad you were able to get access to all of that. In college I would listen to shellacs on an old gramophone in the back of the library. I can't believe you got to listen to a _cylinder_. I guess that the grooves you were listening to were probably impressed on that cylinder by the man himself.
Well, there I go being unclear. I heard the original recordings of Leadbelly, yes -- but not the original media (aluminum disks) on which they were recorded. But all those scrapes, crackles and pops from the original disk-cutting machine sounded great on the CD I was listening to.
This is great stuff. Isn't it amazing when everything falls in place and you really get a sense of who and what your protagonist is all about?
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