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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Craigslist score!

Every once in a while you come across something that seems like it's too good to be true and then it turns out to be as great as you hoped... It really doesn't happen to me very often, so when I saw an ad on Craigslist for some 78's like Jimmie Rodgers and Gene Autry, I assumed they would be the only good ones in the bunch and most likely beat to crap. The ad said something like "39 78 rpm records with artists like Jimmie Rodgers and Gene Autry". I called right away and set up a meeting with the lady who was selling them. We met and I looked through the first 10 records and decided to buy them. Everything for the most part looked to be in good shape and there were lots of original company sleeves, so that was cool. When I got them home and started looking through them, I got really excited! They were all pre-1940 records and they were mostly country/ hillbilly. Very exciting! The one posted here, Frank Blevins and his Tar Heel Rattlers is one of the gems. The other really great one was The South Street Trio doing "Mean Old Bed Bug Blues" on the Victor label. All in all, I ended up with about 20 records that are worth keeping, so not bad for $30!

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