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and I'm the only one

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

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and I'm the only one

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and I'm

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the only one

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the 1920s and 30s

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at that particular period of time

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there was more traditional music

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preserved on commercial phonograph records

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at any other time in the history of recordings

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the records were made on a base of clay

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and different types of shellac

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and pressed uh

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most of the uh

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records from the major companies

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like Columbia and Victor

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were very high quality recordings

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although the buyers of the records

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heard very little of what actually was recorded

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due to the fact they were playing them on crude

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acoustic

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I wind up with trolls

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what a whale of a record

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hi welcome to Maryland hahaha

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I first met Joe 2 years ago

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I was in there to do a story on him

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and you never forget

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when you go in his basement for the first time

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because it's like going into another world

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not only was the music loud

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you know the smoke was thick

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he was dancing

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

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and after I got to know him more

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you you sense the real

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aesthetic theory behind all that enthusiasm

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and when I first interviewed him on the phone

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I had to hold the phone about here

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

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and this is probably two years ago

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and just from that phone conversation

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I knew this guy is different than the other collectors

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

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and I think his collection is

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is such that it's almost been uh

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whittled down to the jewels

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

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a lot of people have a lot of records

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but he's got a lot of good ones