 November 7, 2005 - YAZOO RECORDS
Yazoo Records is an American treasure. For the last thirty or so years it has tirelessly reissued recordings of country blues, early jazz, hokum, gospel, old-time, ethnic, and world music. This is something that people do for love, not money; in fact, if they break even financially on the deal, I'd be surprised. A few years ago Yazoo started putting out CDs using the classic Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music as a model. The eight-volume Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, for example, draws from all traditional Southern genres. The compilers have managed to put together a program that flows, one to the next, in a way that surprises and sometimes even startles. In the last few years Richard Nevins, the label's head and a master of recording technology, has remastered this material and made it sound new. When one considers the conditions under which some of this stuff was recorded, Nevins looks like the modern equivalent of a miracle-worker. I had intended to put together a list of must-have Yazoo releases, but the fact is you simply can't go wrong. Do what I did — get the entire catalog.
May 18, 2007 - THE iPOD
It's been brought to my attention that I haven't updated my iPod list in quite awhile. I've managed to come up with a lot of new stuff in the meantime so here's the new and improved file! DDave's iPod. Ain't technology grand?
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