The Document label has a sick amount of digitized material from old 78s. They specialize in American roots music-- early blues, jazz, country and folk styles, or what used to be known as "race" and "hillbilly" music.
If you click on this link
https://thedocumentrecordsstore.com/?ref=144
and go to their site, anything you buy there will earn me some money. I'm essentially like a kid who does a little dance for tourists, tells them what restaurant or whorehouse to go to, and then gets a kickback. If you like the blog or the show, and are enjoying all the free content, why not buy an album or two from Document? If enough people do this, it will be easier for me to keep doing the blog and show for nothing. (The show ain't cheap to produce, by the way.)
I can't stress this enough-- I'd be happy to promote Document, even if I didn't get a taste. They are doing something honorable and essential to our culture. They often release chronological collections of every side an artist released, so if there's an artist you like and you want to move past the greatest hits type of collection, this is for you. Many of these artists are people you'd never have even heard of if Document hadn't done their exhaustive archival work.
I'll be writing about interesting albums you can find there, and we'll be featuring their stuff on the show from time to time. The third Hot Plate episode has a long segment about Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, and Candy Berberian and I played a bunch of hot Frankie sides.
http://straubhotplate.blogspot.com/2017/06/episode-three-fabulous-career-of.html
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