A 78rpm Studio Outtake from blues legend Lightnin' Hopkins 

This disc came from legendary blues researcher Mack McCormick, who was a friend of Hopkins and (apparently) even wrote a song or two for him. After McCormick's death it made its way to me through Kurt Nauck. Due to the fact it was so badly degraded, no one seemed to want it very much. Here is a great article about McCormick: www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/mack-mccormick-still-has-the-blues/

@@MarkAtnip That was a great read, thanks for sharing!

@@MarkAtnip McCormick didn't write any songs. More likely -- Lightnin' sold him ownership of the songs for hard cash, just like did with every other record company.

@@codex3048 That doesn't surprise me. There is a haze of legend that surrounds McCormick. He was an interesting character to say the least. I have seen a couple of sources that say he "might" have written material for Hopkins, but I haven't seen any songs named.

Do you have a source for this? The LOGICAL date would be 49, but I saw multiple sources cite 48. I also noted where it would be easy to misinterpret the date given in the Dixon, Godrich and Rye discography, however that book didn't not preclude a 1948 recording date. I would like to get it figured out : )

@@MarkAtnip I have my birth certificate. I counted back 9 months from that. :)

I don't think they did, because both recordings are in the same key/pitch. If they had sped up the recording, the pitch would have gone up as well.

I suppose it could work, but it would be an expensive way to do things. I will query some of my archivist and record production industry friends and see what they say. Thanks for the rabbit hole : )

@@MarkAtnip interested in whatever thoughts they may have to share on that idea. I’d rather see something like that done to priceless old acetates to save them, rather than have them sit in a vault flaking off or leeching palmitic acid after 70+ years only to eventually go unplayable.

@@MarkAtnip The monetary value doesn't equate at all into this. You do whatever it takes, even if it costs $1,000+, to preserve the media. People that think this way are why these records are long gone and why irreplaceable things get lost forever. When you own rare historical things, you are also inheriting the responsibility to care for and maintain said item. It's like the redneck that had the prototype of the NASA lunar rover just rusting away in his backyard in a scrap metal pile thinking it could be chopped apart and made into a ATV.