re: Old Timey -- a thread for pre-rock country, folk, and blues

I posted this link in the Tommy Emmanuel thread, but it fits here:

Desperate Man Blues (watch online)




Desperate Man Blues is a documentary about the legendary record collector Joe Bussard, who has been collecting old blues and hillbilly 78s since he was a teenager in the early 1950s. Bussard is quite an irascible character -- he openly despises rock and roll, and time essentially stopped for him in 1937.





Bussard was also the discoverer of the great guitarist John Fahey, who I wrote about here

In the film Bussard show off his rarest record, only one copy of which is known to exist:



Long Cleeve Reed & Little Harvey Hull-Down Home Boys -- "Original Stack O'Lee Blues" (1927)

As it happens it's a great record.



You can read more about the legend of Stagger Lee, as well as other versions of the song, in DrunkenTigah's post here