“He already had a sense of the ways in which white blues fans were unduly aroused by the supreme otherness of black, prewar blues musicians.” — Amanda Petrusich Copy Share Image
“The Phonograph knows more about us than we know ourselves,” Thomas Edison wrote in 1888. “For it retains the memory of many things which… — Amanda Petrusich Copy Share Image
“Collecting anything requires a singularity of focus, but 78 collecting demands an almost-inhuman level of concentration. There is a violence to the search, a… — Amanda Petrusich Copy Share Image
“The first time I bought a record, I remember thinking, I have to see if this band has any other records. And then when… — Amanda Petrusich Copy Share Image
“On a good day, even writing can feel like a form of collecting—of gathering words, images, and ideas and arranging them in an order… — Amanda Petrusich Copy Share Image
“He already had a sense of the ways in which white blues fans were unduly aroused by the supreme otherness of black, prewar blues… — Amanda Petrusich Copy Share Image
