In addition we talk to Art near the end of the first hour.Īrt Rosenbaum is a painter, muralist, and illustrator, as well as a collector and performer of traditional American folk music. The first volume won a Grammy for 2008 Best Historical Album.While Rosenbaum recorded a wide variety of roots music, our focus today will be on his blues recordings. Those included two 4-CD box sets on the Dust-To-Digital label, the Art Of Field Recording I & II. It wasn’t until recently when a couple of recent well praised reissues put him in the spotlight. Rosenbaum, like his contemporaries who went into the field, men such as George Mitchell, Pete Lowry, David Evans, Sam Charters, Pete Welding, mostly stayed in the background. Scrapper’s Blues and Shirley Griffith’s Saturday Blues. Among my favorite records of the 1960’s are a pair on the Bluesville label Scrapper Blackwell’s Mr. I was a fan of Art Rosenbaum’s recordings without actually knowing much about him.
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