Format: LP or CD
While all the BRI releases are worth your while, I'm particularly partial to their blues and African American offerings:
Non-Blues Secular Black Music. BRI LP 001/Global Village CD 1001
Non-Blues Secular Black Music. BRI LP 001/Global Village CD 1001
Western Piedmont Blues. BRI LP 003/Global Village CD 1003
Tidewater Blues. BRI LP 006/Global Village CD 1006
Southwest Virginia Blues. BRI LP 008/Global Village CD 1008
Granted, this is a highly idiosyncratic blog -- jumping from Q-Tip to Virginia blues -- which I do primarily for my own benefit. I own a lot of blues comps, but these are some of the best regional music collections ever put together. Included are some rare and interesting 78s from the 1920s and '30s, but it is the later stuff -- like the 1970s sessions by Kip Lornell -- that really show off that raggy Piedmont/East Coast style. Contact the good folks at the Blue Ridge Institute & Museum about availability.
Granted, this is a highly idiosyncratic blog -- jumping from Q-Tip to Virginia blues -- which I do primarily for my own benefit. I own a lot of blues comps, but these are some of the best regional music collections ever put together. Included are some rare and interesting 78s from the 1920s and '30s, but it is the later stuff -- like the 1970s sessions by Kip Lornell -- that really show off that raggy Piedmont/East Coast style. Contact the good folks at the Blue Ridge Institute & Museum about availability.
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