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ROOTS N' BLUES: THE RETROSPECTIVE 1925-1950 is an absolutely
terrific collection of American folk music which deserves to be
better known than it is. The 107 tracks, many previously reissued, come
from the archives of Columbia Records' location recording program. This
was a marketing scheme started by Columbia and its subsidiary labels
such as Vocalion and Okeh in which recording teams were sent to various
parts of the U.S. to record locally popular musicians. The masters were
then brought to a central Columbia plant for processing, and the disks
pressed from them would be shipped back to the region of the original
recording for marketing to the local audience.
The result of this commercial process is an artistic treasure house of
wonderfully authentic American traditional music, including both famous
names and unknowns, some of the latter being as good as the more famous
artists. The title is slightly misleading: though there are plenty of
blues here, the selections actually range widely over traditional
American musical genres, including folk, gospel, bluegrass, old-timey
fiddle, early country, and even cowboy. One advantage of this anthology
is that unlike many it gives equal prominence to both black and white
musicians, and thus illustrates the musical influence that ran both ways
despite the rigid racial segregation of the times.
terrific collection of American folk music which deserves to be
better known than it is. The 107 tracks, many previously reissued, come
from the archives of Columbia Records' location recording program. This
was a marketing scheme started by Columbia and its subsidiary labels
such as Vocalion and Okeh in which recording teams were sent to various
parts of the U.S. to record locally popular musicians. The masters were
then brought to a central Columbia plant for processing, and the disks
pressed from them would be shipped back to the region of the original
recording for marketing to the local audience.
The result of this commercial process is an artistic treasure house of
wonderfully authentic American traditional music, including both famous
names and unknowns, some of the latter being as good as the more famous
artists. The title is slightly misleading: though there are plenty of
blues here, the selections actually range widely over traditional
American musical genres, including folk, gospel, bluegrass, old-timey
fiddle, early country, and even cowboy. One advantage of this anthology
is that unlike many it gives equal prominence to both black and white
musicians, and thus illustrates the musical influence that ran both ways
despite the rigid racial segregation of the times.
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