Field Recordings From the 21st Century:

 I always wanted to be one of those archeologists of sounds, carrying a device that would capture those fleeting vibrations that thrill so much now-a-days. Like the prayer uttered by Brother Hubbard at the beginning of "On Jordan's Stormy Banks We Stand" by the Seventh Day Adventists Choir..."And, oh Lord, we pray for the man a' catchin' the records for you...make him a man of gawd."


So, it is fitting, after having junked this very same 78 over twenty years ago at my grandparent's farm, out of an abandoned share-cropper's shack, that I was able to record in the field a bona-fide hobo musician...the great Def n' Dum.  His is a disturbing story that I will narrate in future installments.