Do Not Sell At Any Price - Revisited

As a coda to writing about my enjoyment of the book 'Do Not Sell At Any Price' concerning the group of people who obsessively collect 78 RPM records, I wanted to report that the hunt and the success continues.

For example only a couple of years ago, a Paramount record by Blind Blake titled 'Miss Emma Liza / Dissatisfied Blues' was discovered in a flea market in Virginia. This was the only one of 42 recordings by Blake between 1926 and 1932, that had not previously been found following the 2007 discovery of another pairing, 'Night and Day Blues / Sun to Sun'.

Here for your enjoyment is the remastered version of 'Night and Day Blues'

Hopefully it won't be too long before we are able to purchase and hear the latest find although it is currently available to all who choose to purchase the 2014 Blues Calendar from record collector John Tefteller. Besides the calendar which features previously unseen images of blues artists, purchasers also receive a 2 CD set of rare blues tracks. Here is a link to John's website, Blues Images.

The 1931 Paramount recording of 'Devil Got My Woman' by Skip James is immensely collectible as there are only three or four known copies of which two are in bad condition. Nevertheless this recording is available to us thanks to the efforts of collector Richard Nevins who owns one of the good quality originals. Despite the fact that the masters no longer exist, it is easy to obtain a CD or digital copy from somewhere like iTunes.

OR you can just listen to 'Devil Got My Woman' by clicking here.