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… i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces

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… i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces brings together a collection of early photographs related to music, a group of 78rpm recordings,...

… i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces brings together a collection of early photographs related to music, a group of 78rpm recordings, and short excerpts from various literary sources that are contemporary with the sound and images. It is a somewhat intuitive gathering, culled from artist Steve Roden’s collection of thousands of vernacular photographs related to music, sound, and listening. 

Recordings and images conspire towards a consistent mood that is anchored by the book’s title, which binds such disparate things as an early recording of an American cowboy ballad, a poem by a Swedish Nobel laureate, a recording of crickets created artificially, and an image of an itinerant anonymous woman sitting in a field, playing a guitar. The book also contains an essay by Roden.

150 sepia photographs reproduced in full-color, the CDs feature 51 vintage recordings from 1925-1955.

1. HMV – "Weather Effects Wind”
2. John Jacob Niles – "John Henry”
3. Anonymous (Société Anonyme) – "Untitled”
4. Reverend Edward Clayborn – "Then We’ll Need That True Religion”
5. Ernest Thompson – "In the Baggage Coach Ahead”
6. Emery Glen – "Blue Blazes Blues”
7. Gennett Sound Effects – "Walking on Ice”
8. Clara Smith – "Kind Lovin’ Blues”
9. Nick Lucas – "If You Hadn’t Gone Away”
10. Anonymous (Knight Home-recording Disc) – "Beautiful Mansions of Gold”
11. Eva Parker – "I Seen My Pretty Papa Standing on a Hill”
12. Pale K. Lua – "The Rosary”
13. Gennett Sound Effects – "Mocking Bird”
14. Bradley Kincaid – "Froggie Went A-Courting”
15. Sylvester Weaver – "Damfino Stump”
16. Seger Ellis – "Montana Call”
17. Alfred G. Karnes –"When They Ring the Golden Bells”
18. Anonymous (Recordio Home-recording Disc) – "Mandolin”
19. Anonymous (Recordio Home-recording Disc) – "The Stranger”
20. Ex-Governor Alf. Taylor’s Old Limber Quartet – "Brother Noah Built an Ark”
21. Ed Lang – "A Little Love a Little Kiss”
22. Standard Radio Sound Effect – "Canadian Geese”
23. Roy Smeck’s Trio – "Reaching for the Moon”
24. Roland Hayes – "I Want to Go Home”
25. Obed Pickard of Station WSM Nashville Tennessee – "The Old Grey Horse”
26. Gennett Sound Effects – "Walking in Snow and Thin Underbrush”
27. Kelly Harrell – "Rovin’ Gambler”
28. Sara Martin & Sylvester Weaver – "I’ve Got to Go and Leave My Daddy Behind”
29. Frank Ferera’s Hawaiians – "Pinin’ Hawaii for You”
30. Gabriel Brown and his Guitar – "Going My Way”
31. Gennett Sound Effects – "Rainfall and Thunder (Thunder Not from Life)”
32. Lew Childre – "It Don’t Do Nothing but Rain”
33. Bertha Idaho – "Graveyard Love”
34. Frank Luther – "Pretty Polly”
35. Gennett Sound Effects – "Canary Birds: Several Hundred”
36. Roland Hayes – "Xango”
37. Dick Reinhert – "The Girl I Left Behind Me”
38. Rev. Calbert & Sister Billie Holstein – "Yes I Know”
39. Chubby Parker – "Bib-a-lollie-boo”
40. Thurlow Lieurance & Clement Barone – "Winnebago Love Song (Duet)”
41. Clara Smith – "My Good for Nuthin’ Man”
42. Sol Hoopii’s Novelty Trio – "Stack O’Lee Blues”
43. Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) – "(I’m Cryin’ ‘cause I Know I’m) Losing You”
44. Marc Williams – "William & Mary”
45. Anonymous (Recordio Home-recording Disc) – "Way Down Home”
46. Gennett Sound Effects – "Night Noises”
47. Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett – "Ya Gotta Quit Kickin’ My Dog Aroun’”
48. Stovepipe No. 1 (Sam Jones) – "Cripple Creek and Sourwood Mountain”
49. Goebel Reeves – "Cowboy’s Prayer”
50. Bill Kearney & Earl Bush – "Precious Memorys (sic)”
51. Carl T. Sprague – "O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie”

Catalog Number DTD-20

Release Date

Artist(s)

Recording Era(s)

  • 1914-1955

Number of Tracks 51

Page Count 184

Label(s) / Partner(s) Dust-to-Digital

Producer(s) Steven Lance Ledbetter, Steve Roden, Robert Millis

Audio Engineer(s) Michael Graves

Designer(s) John Hubbard

Writer(s)

  • Steve Roden

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