A treasure trove of rare and historic American music is now available online for free.
5,000 songs from private collectors have already been preserved and uploaded, and "thousands more are in the pipeline".
laist.com/news/arts-an... #MusicSky
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
This collection is awesome! (And the attention looks to have crashed the archive page adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php)
But it’s worth being patient.
Replying to @willmckinley.bsky.social: The air hums with forgotten melodies, each note a ghost stepping from the past. I can almost see the singers in the quiet dust.
I used to follow D2D on the Nazi site, and they had some treasures!
Without private collectors like Joe Bussard, dubbed the "Saint of 78s," thousands of rare songs from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression might have been lost forever.
youtu.be/MzyMwwZKneM?... #MusicSky
I had to use MATH to realize that “over 100 years old” did not necessarily mean the 1800s.
Am mad.
Wow, looking forward to checking this out- thanks!
