I first heard “Dry Bones” by Bascom Lamar Lunsford on Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music when I borrowed a vinyl copy from Rod Library at UNI in the summer of 1989 and made a cassette mix from it.
While I mainly focus on collecting jazz records, I agree with Duke Ellington that there are only two kinds of music – good music and the other kind. One inevitably winds up discovering all sorts of good music when digging through crates of records in musty basements, unheated storage sheds, dirty garages, and dusty attics.
A few years ago I had a “my hands were shaking” moment when I pulled this pristine copy of Brunswick 314 out of a crate from a large bargain lot of 78s I had just purchased and hauled home from a rural garage two hours away.
A truly beautiful song – One of the gems of the collection – enjoy!
Recorded in Ashland, Kentucky on February 6, 1928.
Originally released as Brunswick 231. Reissued as Brunswick 314.
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