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and I'm the only one

and I'm the only one and I'm the only one

and I'm the only one

and I'm

the only one

the 1920s and 30s

at that particular period of time

there was more traditional music

preserved on commercial phonograph records

at any other time in the history of recordings

the records were made on a base of clay

and different types of shellac

and pressed uh

most of the uh

records from the major companies

like Columbia and Victor

were very high quality recordings

although the buyers of the records

heard very little of what actually was recorded

due to the fact they were playing them on crude

acoustic

I wind up with trolls

what a whale of a record

hi welcome to Maryland hahaha

I first met Joe 2 years ago

I was in there to do a story on him

and you never forget

when you go in his basement for the first time

because it's like going into another world

not only was the music loud

you know the smoke was thick

he was dancing

it was hard to even get a line on what was going on

and after I got to know him more

you you sense the real

aesthetic theory behind all that enthusiasm

and when I first interviewed him on the phone

I had to hold the phone about here

cause that's how excited he was to get a call

and this is probably two years ago

and just from that phone conversation

I knew this guy is different than the other collectors

I'd talked to there's something going on here

and I think his collection is

is such that it's almost been uh

whittled down to the jewels

I mean he just doesn't have a lot of junk

a lot of people have a lot of records

but he's got a lot of good ones