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(17 customer reviews) 57 of 57 people found the following review helpful
The Dead Sea Scrolls of Neurotic Obsessives!,
May 10, 2006 Arch Stanton (Bondurant, WY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stuff That Dreams Are Made of (Audio CD)
This collection of 78 sides from the 20s and 30s contains rarities from the vaults of a handful of America's most obsessive record collectors. The songs themselves deal with things most Americans still face today - digging ginseng, being terrorized by bulldogs, talking with Jesus, loving chicken, etc. The artists are mostly obscure but you don't need to be a Georgia Potlickers completist to appreciate the music.
Well-recorded with minimal surface noise on most tracks (with a few notable exceptions,) the music is also handsomely packaged. As the liner notes detail, some people diligently collect wishbones and some collect hair from elephant tails. We are fortunate that there are still a few madmen combing estate sales and antique shops, looking for "the stuff that dreams are made of." No surprise that the annotation is non-existent but this is an elegant package filled with music that still sparkles and entertains.
38 of 41 people found the following review helpful
A Truer Title Can't Be Found,
July 10, 2006 Doug Brunell "America's Favorite Son" (A little south of Hell) - See all my reviews
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This is really the stuff dreams are made of.
I believe there is magic in old blues music. There is something so raw and real about it that today's music can't compete. This two disc collection of old blues and country has the rarest of the rare, and it's worth every cent you'll pay for it.
I haven't taken this off the Bose in weeks. Yes, some of the sound quality suffers because of the source material, but that only adds to the mystique. It's like an AM radio station playing oldies that keeps fading in and out on a rainy night. Kind of comforting. Kind of spooky. Purely supernatural in the most organic of ways.
And let's not even get started on the booklet and R. Crumb art. If you don't understand what makes this collection so good, you'll never be able to comprehend it. You either know or you don't.
Yazoo constantly puts out good stuff ... the kind of stuff they don't make anymore (with the exception of people like Don Haupt, whom...Read more
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Amazing Set has only one flaw,
July 22, 2006 D. Reichel (KY USA) - See all my reviews
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Too bad a track listing sheet w/ release date or recorded date & label info isn't included for every track. Other than that, this is a real work of art.
