A pre-war blues blog

July 12, 2006 9:49 PM

Honey, where you been so long? A music blog featuring almost daily links to mp3s of pre-war blues musicians. Previously mentioned in-thread here and here.
posted by persona non grata (24 comments total)

Damn - I'm not going to get any work done tonight - awesome site...
posted by twsf at 10:08 PM on July 12, 2006

persona non grata, What joy! Treasure! Thank you for this wonderful post and links to such great music!
posted by nickyskye at 10:44 PM on July 12, 2006

PNG, you rock!
posted by shoepal at 11:39 PM on July 12, 2006

(p.s. I've been enjoying the "Stuff That Dreams are Made Of" comps of early blues and old country music from the 1920s and 30s. You might enjoy them if you're not already familiar...)
posted by shoepal at 11:45 PM on July 12, 2006

I love it!
posted by caddis at 12:01 AM on July 13, 2006

This is very cool and a good place to link to Lars Lindh's Web Concordance of Michael Taft's Pre-War Blues Lyrics. The lyric transcriptions there are not always that accurate nor is the site that easy to use but it does cover a lot of territory all the same.
posted by y2karl at 1:10 AM on July 13, 2006

Thanks, PNG!
posted by MinPin at 1:11 AM on July 13, 2006

Thanks!
posted by RobHoi at 3:38 AM on July 13, 2006

awesome. thanks!
posted by crunchland at 4:02 AM on July 13, 2006

It's a wonderful site. Though it's cost me an absolute fortune in blues CDs after discovering artists there.
posted by jack_mo at 4:19 AM on July 13, 2006

Yeah, that's a good one.
posted by Tuwa at 4:57 AM on July 13, 2006

I thank you, and my husband thanks you! Cool link!
posted by Orb at 6:04 AM on July 13, 2006

Excellent!
posted by OmieWise at 6:08 AM on July 13, 2006

Perhaps a tangent not specific solely to the blues but, following up on your earlier post links PNG, I stumbled across this, which may be of interest.....
posted by Pressed Rat at 6:09 AM on July 13, 2006

H,WYBSO? is amazing in how much stuff he digs up that I've never even heard of, let around heard. The Stagger Lee/Stagolee/Wrong Em Boyo piece last year was stunning. And I'll second jack_mo - you can go broke trying to track down some of this stuff for your own collection.
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 6:09 AM on July 13, 2006

Wow this is great -thanks!
posted by ob at 7:23 AM on July 13, 2006

*bursts into tears*
posted by sciurus at 7:24 AM on July 13, 2006

Bookmarked. Thank you.
posted by rocket88 at 7:51 AM on July 13, 2006

Thank you for posting this, persona non grata. I've visited this site quite a bit over the past year or so and it never is anything less than awesome.
posted by blucevalo at 8:55 AM on July 13, 2006

I been in the pen with the rough and rowdy men.
posted by Overzealous at 2:31 PM on July 13, 2006

Way cool. Thanks!
posted by Smedleyman at 6:15 PM on July 13, 2006

I love you, PNG.
posted by malaprohibita at 6:31 PM on July 13, 2006

Life ain't nothin but the blues. Thanks.
posted by FJeff at 7:34 PM on July 13, 2006

Great link...it's been part of my weekly audioblog trawl for a while now. Incidentally, I must take this opportunity to plug my own site, which features obscure Canadian music; Five Bucks On By-Tor.
posted by The Card Cheat at 3:16 AM on July 14, 2006