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We Got the Blues, What Can We Lose, Goodbye

Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) Lead Student Producer for our local PBS station Brian Kenney visited Special Collections yesterday with Chicago-based Milwaukee blues musician Matt Hendricks to review and film our deluxe box set of re-issued vinyl pressings and documentary materials of Paramount Records blues recordings from 1917-1932. The set, housed in facsimile vintage turntable boxes, is in two volumes, Paramount: The Rise & Fall. Volume One, 1917-1927 and The Rise and Fall of Paramount. Volume Two, 1928-32.

Paramount Records was based in Grafton, Wisconsin, about 20 miles north of our campus. A parade of now-legendary Black blues artists made their way to Paramount’s Grafton studios in the early 20th-century to record the company’s so-called “race records,” the most lucrative part of their business. Their catalog of recordings is now an important archive of early blues music, which has been reissued in this 2013-14 set by John Fahey's and Dean Blackwood’s Revenant Records and Jack White's Third Man Records. The set includes documentary books; facsimiles of posters, programs, and advertisements; “field manuals” with complete artist bios and recording lists; a library of vinyl records with over 160 recordings; and flash drives (housed in attractive art-deco holders) with images of printed ephemera and over 1600 additional recordings. Wow!

The Third Man – Üçüncü Adam

‘Üçüncü Adam’ ‘1949’ İngiliz yapımı kara filmdir. Özgün adı ‘The Third Man’ olan film ABD’de ‘The 3rd Man’ alternatif adıyla da gösterime sunulmuştu. Senaryosunu casus romanlarının babası olarak da anılan İngiliz yazar Graham Greene’in yine 1949’da yazdığı aynı adlı kendi kısa romanından uyarlayarak yazdığı bu soğuk savaş klasiğini Carol Reed yönetmiştir. Graham Greene, senaryosuna bir ön…