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	NEWS: COLLECTION OF RARE BLUES RECORDS FOUND! Like a time capsule, this small steamer trunk sat unopened for nearly four decades in a trailer park on the east side of Raleigh, North Carolina. Its contents, about one hundred 78 rpm records, still in their original paper sleeves, represent some of the greatest blues artists active during the Great Depression. A telephone tip and subsequent negotiations led to the acquisition of the collection by Marshall Wyatt of Old Hat Records. For more information about the "Trunk Full O' Blues," CLICK HERE.

	REVIEWS: GOOD FOR WHAT AILS YOU Music of the Medicine Shows, 1926-1937 Old Hat CD-1005 Groundbreaking Collection of 48 Songs from the Old, Weird America. Five Stars “Fans of Nick Tosches’ Emmett Miller biography, Where Dead Voices Gather, will lap up this extraordinary snapshot of an America that is still shrouded in shadow. Featuring local and travelling musicians to draw the crowds, medicine shows provided one of the prime sources of entertainment for non-city dwellers. Good For What Ails You supplants the Harry Smith collections by surveying the people’s music of the day, some of which sounds like nothing you have heard before. Whether it’s home-made guitar, surreal hoedowns, blackface raps, or just “overdriven folk music,” they’re all here. And the photo of Johnny Watson (Daddy Stovepipe), ready to rock with his harmonica brace, top hat and shiny shoes, is worth the price of admission by itself.” *—Jon Savage, Mojo, December 2005* “This one’s a real doozy! In fact, it’s probably the single most impressive, historically important Americana/old-timey album to come out in the last few years... The material is musically and thematically riveting, and endlessly surprising. So what are you waiting for? This is one of the best records of the year, by far.” —Lawrence Kay, Slipcue, October 2005 READ COMPLETE REVIEW “Marshall Wyatt’s wonderful and impeccably researched 72-page booklet, chockablock with priceless photos, medicine show history, and artist biographies, provides a base of gravitas to the craziest collection of old-time music since Harry Smith’s Anthology.” —Jon Pankake, The Old-Time Herald, March 2006 READ COMPLETE REVIEW “Good For What Ails You dishes up primordial soup... Never have the roots of modern music been more amply defined than they are on these two CDs... Monumental. The best reissue of the year!” —Will Bedard, Ugly Things #24, Summer 2006 READ COMPLETE REVIEW

	REVIEWS: DOWN IN THE BASEMENT Joe Bussard’s Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s 1926-1937 Old Hat RCD-1004 “The record up for discussion here is Down in the Basement: Joe Bussard’s Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s, an absolutely phenomenal, nearly Smithsonian-worthy anthology of old tunes... Everything fits gorgeously, and the record as a whole is an intimate experience, one that feels virtually first-hand. —Matt Wellins, Dusted Magazine, September 19, 2003 READ COMPLETE REVIEW “The Bussard experience is well-documented, but it’s remarkable how ably Down in the Basement conveys it in a portable package. ..As hard as it strives to capture the fetishism of the collector, Down in the Basement is also a whiz-bang bunch of tunes.” *–Glenn Dixon, Washington City Paper, September 5, 2003* READ COMPLETE REVIEW

	REVIEW: FOLKS, HE SURE DO PULL SOME BOW! Vintage Fiddle Music 1927-1935 Old Hat CD-1003 “Black fiddlers typically played with more vibrato and a rougher, fuller, more hornlike tone than their white counterparts; they could be more fearless, even rash, about venturing into the upper register, and their bowing patterns seemed less predictable. In uptempo pieces, their headlong attack sounded unlike the white fiddlers’ rhythmic flow, and their slow blues had a lonesomeness entirely different from the lonesomeness of the white mountain fiddlers’ modal drone... These are master musicians whose voices shouldn’t be lost.” —David Gates, Newsweek, March 29, 2001 READ COMPLETE REVIEW

	REVIEWS: VIOLIN, SING THE BLUES FOR ME African-American Fiddlers 1926-1949 Old Hat CD-1002 “It’s one of those revelatory, lovingly produced compilations that makes one ask, ‘Why didn’t someone think of this before?’ and then exclaim. ‘Damn, This is great stuff!’” —Chris Morris, Billboard, June 19, 1999 READ COMPLETE REVIEW “This is as entertaining a collection of American folk music as you’ll find, and the producer Marshall Wyatt has assembled a diverse group of artists, obscure and well-known. He wisely eschews a chronological approach to the material in favor of sequencing it so that you can just throw it on the album anywhere and enjoy it.” —Ed Ward, The New York Times, October 17, 1999 READ COMPLETE REVIEW LISTEN TO REVIEW ON ALL THINGS CONSIDERED (NPR RADIO ARCHIVE)

	REVIEW: MUSIC FROM THE LOST PROVINCES Old-Time Stringbands from Ashe County, North Carolina & Vicinity 1927-1931 Old Hat CD-1001 “This is a terrific collection... Followers of the New Lost City Ramblers should be particularly delighted to find both a general model for much of that group’s early fiddle-banjo-guitar sound and the source of such oddball tunes as the Woodie Brothers’ woeful ‘Likes Likker Better Than Me’” —Mark Greenberg, Sing Out!, Summer 1999 READ COMPLETE REVIEW