January 2009
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Tom Waits - There’s Only Alice
I’m...
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Ponytail - Beg Waves
When you come down to it,...
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Ruby Isle - Skinny Love (Bon Iver)
Yeah, I know,...
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Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night, Cold...
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Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project →
Cylinder recordings, the first commercially produced sound recordings, are a snapshot of musical and popular culture in the decades around the turn of the 20th century.
On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and...
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78 RPMs & Cylinder Recordings →
Like our latest theme?
Then you’ll love this directory on the Internet Archive, featuring a catalog of recordings from the turn of the last century, transferred from old 78s and cylinders.
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The Carter Family - Wildwood Flower
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New Theme: A Hit Before Your Mother Was Born
Let’s all get up and dance to a song That was a hit before your mother was born Though she was born a long, long time ago
Popular music tends to have a pretty short memory, and a lot of incredible music gets forgotten. Let’s bring some of it back…as an arbitrary cut off point, no songs written since your mother was born are eligible.
To open up some options, we’ll...
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David Crosby - Wooden Ships (rehearsal tape)
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Tom Waits - Fish and Bird (instrumental demo)
Tom...