For a start there are fascinating solo fiddle tracks from J D Harris ( The Grey Eagle) and Osey Helton ( Green River), two fiddlers who are new to me.
The Son House coupling, Mississippi County Farm Blues / Clarksdale Moan will have the blues-aficionados salivating while the Georgia Pot Lickers’ Up Jumped the Rabbit / Chicken Don’t Roost Too High will no-doubt do the same for the Old-Timey fans.Īnd, of course, there is more to these albums than just these two killer 78s. But, as I said, there are some new reissues here. It seems that Yazoo are of the opinion that if only one-known copy of a 78 exists, then this is the place for it – no matter if it has already been reissued elsewhere. The album is subtitled Super Rarities & Unissued Gems of the 1920’s & ’30s and whilst a number of items are heard here on CD for the first time, it must be said that some tracks have been reissued previously elsewhere. Now, believe it or not, the Son House has, at last, turned up -slightly scratched and battered – but nevertheless brilliant!Īnd it has just been reissued on a double set of CDs The Stuff That Dreams are Made Of – The Dead Sea Scrolls of Record Collecting (Yazoo CD 2202). I wonder if there was ever a similar list of things that you would never expect to hear in your life? Well, in my case, such a list would have to include two ‘missing’ Paramount 78’s of outstanding Mississippi blues-singers, the first by Willie Brown and the second by Son House. I can still remember two of these ‘things’ – they were ‘a contented farmer’ and ‘a dead donkey’ – though, sadly, the third item on the list has now slipped my mind. The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of : The Dead Sea Scrolls of Record Collecting, Super Rarities & Unissued Gems of the 1920’s & ’30s (Yazoo CD 2202)īy Mike Yates (Some years ago an American acquaintance gave me a list of the ‘three things that you will never see in your life’.
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