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1936 Soviet Newsreel - Noginsk Record Plant (by Alexey Petukhov)

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:43:30 -0400

1936 Soviet Newsreel - Noginsk Record Plant (by Alexey Petukhov)

thefader: PERSONAL HISTORY: LONNIE HOLLEY My music is not...

Mon, 27 May 2013 14:10:56 -0400

PERSONAL HISTORY: LONNIE HOLLEY

My music is not going to be for everybody to hear. Everybody ain’t going to be able to dance and bump and drop it like it’s hot, ease it up like it’s cold. I may not be the best hip-hopper or booty-swapper. There are so many rocks and so many broken stones and so many nails and sticks and weeds and debris and garbage and trash, and we have to plow and mine the worst things on this earth to make them better, and to make us better, so we can show the world: I can handle it. I can deal with it. I can live with it. I can go on. All of this stuff we call hell, how can I take from that hell and make it better?

PHOTO BY KENDRICK BRINSON

raupenbahn: Egypt, 1920s, in colour. Autochromes taken by...

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:35:10 -0400

raupenbahn:

Egypt, 1920s, in colour. Autochromes taken by Gervais Courtellemont and W. Robert Moore for National Geographic.

historicporn: Gypsy children play violin in the...

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:03:59 -0400

historicporn:

Gypsy children play violin in the streets.

Hungary, 1939.

i12bent: Robert Johnson was born 102 years ago. Shortly after...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:58:09 -0400

i12bent:

Robert Johnson was born 102 years ago. Shortly after that he went down to the cross-roads…

Robert Johnson: Love in Vain, 1937

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devilduck: A tower of alcohol supposedly about to be burned,...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:56:26 -0400

devilduck:

A tower of alcohol supposedly about to be burned, during Prohibition, 1924.

“It’s an affront to the whole history of mankind.”—Winston Churchill on Prohibition in the USA.

Spencer Moore playing for Alan Lomax in Chilhowie, Va., in...

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:52:20 -0400

Spencer Moore playing for Alan Lomax in Chilhowie, Va., in September 1959. (via Book Review: The Beautiful Music All Around Us - WSJ.com)

From its name onward, Glenn Jones’ My Garden State sets a...

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:49:58 -0400

From its name onward, Glenn Jones’ My Garden State sets a personal tone. The album was written in the northern New Jersey house where the American Primitive-style guitarist and banjo player grew up with his family. When his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s some years back, he and his sisters took turns looking after her, and it was there that these loving pieces came together. (via First Listen: Glenn Jones, ‘My Garden State’ : NPR)

Plants might be able to eavesdrop on their neighbors and use the...

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:49:10 -0400

Plants might be able to eavesdrop on their neighbors and use the sounds they “hear” to guide their own growth, according to a new study that suggests plants use acoustic signaling to communicate with one another. “We have shown that plants can recognize when a good neighbor is growing next to them,” said study co-author Monica Gagliano, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Western Australia. “We are proposing that this communication may be based upon an acoustic exchange.” (via Plants “Listen” to the Good Vibes of Other Plants)

(via We Had No Idea What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like....

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:40:04 -0400

(via We Had No Idea What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like. Until Now | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine)

johndarnielle: from one of the most awesome places on the...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:41:59 -0400

johndarnielle:

from one of the most awesome places on the internet

(via Extracting Audio from Pictures | media preservation)

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:21:44 -0400

(via Extracting Audio from Pictures | media preservation)

(via r. crumb - matsgus.com)

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:15:09 -0400

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Robert Johnson, Skene, Mississippi, 1967. This photograph was...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:32:00 -0400

Robert Johnson, Skene, Mississippi, 1967.

This photograph was taken by Marina Bokelman, who accompanied David Evans on many of his field recording trips throughout the American South. This image and several of Johnson’s songs appear in th the recently released album of religious music recorded by Evans entitled ”Sorrow Come Pass Me Around.”

Jonathan Ward, proprietor of Excavated Shellac (via A pause… |...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:19:51 -0400

Jonathan Ward, proprietor of Excavated Shellac (via A pause… | Excavated Shellac)

(via Kendrick Brinson Photography | Lonnie Holley for FADER)

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:19:05 -0400

(via Kendrick Brinson Photography | Lonnie Holley for FADER)

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:18:53 -0400

(via Kendrick Brinson Photography | Lonnie Holley for FADER)

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:18:13 -0400

(via Kendrick Brinson Photography | Lonnie Holley for FADER)

“Kassidat”, the Arabic word for poetry, is one of...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:17:16 -0400

“Kassidat”, the Arabic word for poetry, is one of the essential ingredients in Moroccan song. Despite the bewildering array of musical styles in Morocco, the Moroccan sense of poetry is found throughout the music, regardless of the style or language. This isn’t the language of high art, but an often impenetrable vernacular poetry of oblique references, symbols, metaphors, and double entendres that describes the lives of average Moroccans. — from Kassidat: Raw 45s from Morocco
For more information: dust-digital.com/kassidat

“I Shall Not Be Moved” Blind Pete Burrell, vocal...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:16:44 -0400

“I Shall Not Be Moved”
Blind Pete Burrell, vocal and guitar
Bogalusa, Louisiana
March 31, 1969
Recorded by David Evans
“When I recorded him in 1969, Blind Pete Burrell was in his late thirties. Some years earlier he had gone blind suddenly while watching television, he says. He plays guitar for himself and friends and sometimes at gospel programs in churches.”
From the album Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
For more information: http://dust-digital.com/sorrow