American music historian Joe Bussard has died at 86.
He not only sought out obscure 78-rpm records that otherwise would have disappeared — but shared the music with giddy excitement.
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On a visit to Joe Bussard’s legendary basement earlier this year I made this short video of him playing what he considered one of the greatest recordings of all time, Blind Willie Johnson’s “Dark was the night, Cold was the ground.” RIP Joe