BREAKING NEWS! Volume 3 is NOW AVAILABLE for pre-order in the Amazon Kindle Store. Details at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RPGP71W?ref Announcing “Blues Unlimited: The Complete Radio Show Transcripts, Volume 2.†Now available in the Amazon Kindle Store at https://tinyurl.com/yy5kkgor and from Barnes & Noble at https://tinyurl.com/y64gdruh Quite some time ago, we put together two programs that sampled the delectable treasures to be found among the 90 or so LPs in the legendary Bluesville catalog. Although those episodes, in turn, would end up being the inspiration for our seven-part miniseries on the label — the original two programs have been sitting quietly in the archives, gathering dust, ever since. Here they are again, for the first time in many years. In part one, we'll enjoy some great folk and acoustic blues from Lightnin' Hopkins, Sonny & Brownie, Robert Pete Williams, Henry Townsend, and many more. Bluesville was a label that got it's start in 1959, and was owned and operated by parent company Prestige Records. And just as Prestige would become famous for their lengthy series of fine Jazz recordings, likewise, Bluesville would become renowned for the 90 or so albums they put out, on a broad range of Blues legends -- some new, some old, and some overlooked and forgotten. Prestige had been founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock, and 10 years later, he brought in a PhD student, Kenneth Goldstein, to head up the Bluesville division. Working in the field with producers like Sam Charters, Art Rosenbaum, and Chris Strachwitz, Bluesville recorded such legends as Lightnin' Hopkins and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (whose collective albums made up almost 20% of Bluesville's entire output!), as well as stalwarts like Memphis Slim, Roosevelt Sykes, Big Joe Williams, and some of the overlooked and forgotten -- like Scrapper Blackwell, Pete Franklin, and Furry Lewis, to name but a few. According to former Prestige/Bluesville employee Sam Charters, it was thanks to Weinstock's "part time" job of commodities trader -- he apparently guessed right more than he guessed wrong -- that enabled the funding for these numerous projects. "The word around the office was that we could do a lot of Blues recording because Bob had guessed right on the wholesale price of eggs," wrote Charters, some decades after the fact. In 1961, Weinstock sent Charters on an extended tour of the Southern states, where he recorded a number of fine albums along the way. Bluesville stopped issuing LPs in 1966, and new releases were shuffled over to either Prestige, or their Milestone subsidiary (Prestige maintained a number of smaller imprints at any one given time). In 1971, Fantasy purchased Prestige -- and all of their subsidiary labels -- and maintained an extensive reissue program for some time. In the meantime, Kenneth Goldstein finished his PhD, and became an important author and scholar, overseeing the recording and/or production of over 500 albums relating to folk and world music during his distinguished career. Although Bluesville only operated for about half a dozen years, during that time, they made a permanent and indelible mark upon the Blues world, and on this episode of Blues Unlimited we enjoy a broad sampling of those treasures. Pictured: One of the big sellers on the Bluesville line, Lightnin’ Hopkins. Fundraiser link - it’s not too late to help! https://www.gofundme.com/a-fund-raiser-for-blues-unlimited-radio AND.... ONE MORE WAY YOU CAN HELP -- BECOME A BANDCAMP SUBSCRIBER! This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe
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