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the candy pool that's been almost 40 years ago now

I guess

well they came up here one night

and they just played in Morrison

they had a lot of money you know

and over there was about 3,000 duplicates

and they got into them the whole place was just wild

everybody talking this guy got over there and he says

Joe

how much you want for the Smokehouse Charlie Champion

I'll give you $50 for it I said sold

cause I only wanted a dollar for it

and it kept going and I had a little bit of money

and I built a swimming pool out here the can heat pool

the 20s was the greatest time as far as I'm concerned

they had that wonderful sound

I don't know what it was you know

you know you've heard on the record

you know people had time and they lived their music

it's the way they were it's the way they lived

they had a god given talent it was just one time

about 12 years and it was gone

if you're into 78 RPM records

he has the best collection probably in the world

at least the most diverse

he has a lot of records

but everything he has is just fantastic

and in excellent condition

I'm trying to remember when I found out about him

it must have been pretty early on

was it before the movie or after the movie

when did the movie come out

2001 I think probably right around the same time

after you watch that thing

there's nothing else you wanna do but go out and like

try to find records

every time you go see Joe

it's just a preview of what he has

so many great jazz and blues and country

stuff that you probably will only see in the basement

so you know why not

I'm rusty I'll tell you that

I ain't played in a while

7 11

named the store after it

1936 and I just hit the 80 Mark

not doing too bad mother played the piano and organ

daddy didn't never

he was in he like Russ Morgan

Carl and Bego

I like Gene Autry

but when I started going out

I found early Gene Autry so boy

I like him then I heard Jimmy Rodgers

which is 100 times better

that's where it went really lit the fuse first

I Learned more and more nobody showed me anything

and it was nothing

go out on a record trip and come back

four or five hundred records on the weekend

everywhere on a trip

when I went down in Virginia for a trip

three or four days it took me a half an hour to air

just carry them all in boxes full of

stacked up on this good stuff

you don't see nothing that's gone

hmm

been here been here 50 years I guess now

shells I had built when I built the house

I think 15,000 all together

I mean it I filled it in over the years

whoo what is that a rusty

I'm afraid I wouldn't make Paramount Records

I'm Devin Flattery of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

I'm going to now play and sing you an old song

that was lost in the building of King Solomon's Temple

and in later years been resurrected

and I call it how many biscuits can you eat

well I just wanted the Joe's show

and I it's just the Mecca of record collectors I

he's just this figure that he's got to go visit

you know um

I just wanna hear records that I

don't think I'll ever find in my lifetime

but I still have time of course it's

it's hearing records as they should be heard as well

you got the the full setup

you know you have the

you have the uh

you have the the immaculate sound system

and you have all the n minus

e plus copies of everything

it's like going back in time

it's like an American music archive

it's perfect why wouldn't I come

how many biscuits can you eat this morning

this morning how many biscuits can you eat this morning

this morning how many biscuits can you eat

44 and a ham of meat this morning for breakfast

very good

good Lord of Friday hahaha

oh yeah hahaha

see how beautifully that's recorded

we couldn't get a recording that good

it doesn't sound like a base

well

country music is over in 55

jazz was over in 33 blues

struggle on I remember that freaking Elvis Presley

oh god

and then the Beatles oh

and there's Everly Brothers

oh my god

after hearing the Blue Sky Boys

who wants to hear them I mean

when I was hunting fine records

all that stuff was going on

it was enjoyable it's not enjoyable anymore

it's all money

it's just fantastic times that'll never be again

it's the way people lived

you can tell that they were like what they were doing

they got a little money fine

and 50 bucks is usually what they got

even the jazz bands everything

it's only Benny Goodman

just the way that rhythm had a Kansas city's rhythm

and I'm the King Oliver

all them I mean

Jelly Roll Morton

oh she's genius

there was a guy never got the credit

he was a genius

you go the day nobody's ever heard of him

yes great

and that a fish cutter

Paramount Jeanette

um

well champion right

actually Janet made those

Victor Columbus good stuff

major labels

I mean it's good stuff in all

that's all those labels

you find the right ones

you just got to find them

I mean I stayed in Bluefield and this old guy

we're right across the motel

was a gas station where we got gas

and this old guy was pumping gas one evening

and I showed him a record

I said you got any of those things

he gave me this guy's address

so he ran a hardware store

so I got the phone cost $1 to call across the mountain

best dollar I ever spent

I got to store oh

he's not here right now he's at the house

I said well

give me the number up there

and I got him on the phone

it was $2

yeah I got some records over here

I said well

can I look at me sell some

yeah come on over

so it took us long

we had to go all the way up and all the way back down

to get on the other side of the mountain

it's a little town we parked on the sidewalk

and there was a hardware store

we walked in it was like going back in the 20s

big old round bulb lamps hanging down that's tall

with the flowers

you know all around

he said the records are upstairs

we got on a freight elevator

this snail could have beat us up

I could die we finally got to the second floor

and we walked out on a balcony

and halfway out was a shelf

with at least 10,000 records in it

I reached up

the first thing I pulled out was sobbing blues

King Oliver and okay Mint

next one was dead man blues vocalion just kept going

jackass blues oh my God

that's why I stained my underwear

there was everything and anything

everything was a gym

carried them downstairs he comes over

said how many did you get

I said I don't know

he was up the sleeve you know

like that I said

I don't even count

how about 100 bucks for the whole work

take them out of here

I floated out

so then we need boxes

across the street was SK

I think it's SK Cross dime store

big sign 5 and dime

same sign from the 30s you know

and I walked down and I said

do you have any old cardboard boxes

he said yeah

they're in the basement I said

be careful going down the steps cause they weren't

they had big old switch clunk

and we're down and crunch

we're walking on records oh my god

I picked them up they were Romeos in original sleeves

Crossroad Blues Robert Johnson

brand new when they stepped on

broke a piece out of it I was sick

there was another one there and there was Buddy Holly

the floor was covered I ran back upstairs

I said where these records come from

she said we had hundreds

and we took them to the dump two weeks ago

so what they did they pull them out

the shells and whatever fell on the floor is walked on

if I wouldn't have hit that good across the street

Bam hahaha

that was one whale of a trip

they're out there some place

is this a chance who knows

what's your definition of hell

hell would be a place where there's every beautiful

record ever made in mint condition

the finest playback system in the world and no needles

that would be hell

drink it all up in

there you go

that's enough