Sit By My Side: Hear Joe Henry & Lisa Hannigan’s 78
“Red River Valley” is one of those songs for which everyone has their own story. It has at least a dozen claimed origins – as many as the regions the Valley touches and then some – and everyone who...
View ArticleAlways Be Around: Hear Star & Micey’s Flipside “Rocky Song”
Why give thanks for just one day? We feel like we’re going to need the whole week to express our gratitude for everything that’s happened with The 78 Project so far, and everything that is to come....
View ArticleMust Come Down: Hear Timmy Mislock’s 78
Our second day in our week of giving thanks recalls another week not too long ago when we felt very fortunate. Just after returning from our first recording trip to the South, The 78 Project was...
View ArticleFire Burns so Bright: Hear Ella Mae Bowen’s Flipside “Heart Locked Out”
In the spirit of the freewheelin’ freedom that comes with the weekend, today feels like the perfect day to share Ella Mae Bowen’s rockin’ flipside “Heart Locked Out.” We recorded with Ella Mae in the...
View ArticleYour Morning Song: Hear Arborea’s Flipside “Red Bird”
Today is a Sunday afternoon with an agenda. It seeks to usher us into a real Autumn for the first time since the months of strange and unseasonable weather began. Today the sky is powdery and sunny...
View ArticleIn the Middle of the Night: Hear The Bo-Keys with Percy Wiggins Flipside...
The beginning of a new week means just a few days are left in our 7 days of 78s…and that a holiday weekend is in sight! Just in case you were afraid your Monday might lack a little flavor, we …...
View ArticleAn Old Familiar Tune: Hear John Paul Keith’s Flipside “The Man That Time Forgot”
Some things never change, and we like them that way. It’s comforting to sit in the same taped up vinyl booth in our local rock club, and to know that a simple, well-crafted rock riff will always make...
View ArticleHow Sweet the Sound: Hear Holly Williams & Chris Coleman sing “Amazing Grace”
Tomorrow is a family day. Not that every day isn’t, it’s just that this week in particular we make such an effort to gather together our loved ones. Putting aside the stress and distance, it’s a...
View ArticleNight Will Come: Hear Leah Siegel’s 78
How did we imagine things when we were children picturing our adult lives? Exciting and strange, moving more quickly than the quiet creep of childhood, and painted in much broader strokes inside much...
View ArticleEpisode #13: Sid Selvidge & Steve Selvidge “I Got Mine”
A beautiful afternoon filled with end-of-summer sunlight hid the rainstorm that was on the horizon. Our week in Memphis had been full of surprises, and our last day there was no different. Sid walked...
View ArticleA Slide “Guitar Rag” to Make Your Season Bright: Joe Bussard’s holiday greeting
You’ll pass the Barbara Fritchee on the right hand side. You can’t miss it, because of the candy cane. These directions, given over the phone with a gleeful chuckle, began to make perfect sense as we...
View ArticleOur California Road Trip begins today! A new year of 78s awaits…
Our journey to make The 78 Project Feature-length documentary film continues today... As the sun sets over Manhattan tonight, we’ll be 30,000 ft above the city, flying West towards the next leg of our...
View ArticleOuds, a New Year, a Lacquer Factory and the Desert: Our first week in California
At the end of our first week in California, we found ourselves looking out across a vast expanse of sand and sky thinking back to our trip’s beginning, just one week ago in San Francisco. It seems too...
View ArticleSerendipity, Spoons, Hammers and Harmony: Our California adventure continues...
Something drew us into that café. With it’s squeaky screen door, two tiny tables and unassuming presence at the end of the block, it just looked like the place where the locals go. We were passing...
View ArticleHallelujah! Hear The Wandering’s 78
It was the true spirit of mobility, a genuine adventure. Rooting around a dark alley for a power source, decent light, bright sound and a clean-ish, flat surface for the Presto and for the ladies’...
View ArticleGood Times All Would Happen: Hear Sid Selvidge & Steve Selvidge’s 78
Sid Selvidge is a performer and folk music scholar of the highest order. It’s a well-deserved rap he caught from devoting himself congenially and tirelessly to knowing the people and learning the songs...
View ArticleGetting to Know the PRESTO – #8 – On Needles (and Pins)
Things that have been used as needles for record players in a pinch: Cactus needles (like the ones to the right at the Smithsonian which belonged to Moses Asch,) shards of bone, ivory and glass,...
View ArticleThe warmth of our spirits: Dylan LeBlanc “Innocent Sinner” video clip and...
We’ve been hard at work in the editing room since returning home in January from our California road trip. And though we sit in the same room every day as we sort the hours of footage we’ve shot so far...
View ArticleFamily Story: Hear Christopher King tell the birth of Riley at 78rpm
So often they seem beyond belief, the yarns that are spun around town and around dinner tables, late in the night or in passing on the street. They are mostly told secondhand. Or third. Stories from...
View ArticleLook Up, Look Down: Watch and hear John Cohen’s “Danville Girl” recording...
Our afternoon workshop at the 5th annual Brooklyn Folk Fest felt momentous. It was finally Spring! It was Record Store Day! It was the midpoint in a weekend of exceptional folk music, a gathering of...
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