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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

INTEXICATED! is a compilation of tunes from T. Tex Edwards' post-Nervebreakers career. Originally released on CD from San Antonio's Saustex label in 2012, the entire Saustex CD of INTEXICATED! now available for streaming & download on Bandcamp. ttexedwards.bandcamp.com/album/intexi...

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Intexicated!, by T. Tex Edwards

19 track album

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A Perfect Autumn Spin: Celebrating the Poplin-Woods Tennessee String Band .For those who haven’t fallen in love with this track yet, it is a masterclass in early old-time music. Listen to it here documentvintagehalloween.bandcamp.com/album/apple-...

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Drop a Coin in our Halloween Juke Box 2026 . 12 fantastic albums of obscure , rare vintage Halloween Music .Check themout here or on Bandcamp thedocumentrecordsstore.com/halloween-ha...

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Drop a Coin in our Haunted Box -13 Halloween releases. Rare, obscure & wonderfully strange Blues, Jazz, R&B, Rock ’n’ Roll, Rockabilly & Hillbilly. thedocumentrecordsstore.com/halloween-ha...

Vintage-style Halloween artwork showing a skeleton playing electric guitar beside a glowing orange jukebox in a dark, smoky club. Large text reads “Haunted Jukebox”, with “Document Records” beneath.

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Songwriter, bluesman and vaudevillian Waymon “Sloppy” Henry left just sixteen known recordings, no confirmed portrait photograph and one of the great little mysteries of 1920s Atlanta..Read the blog thedocumentrecordsstore.com/rediscoverin...

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Halloween Needle Drop: “Laying in the Graveyard.” SIX SONGS FROM THE STREETS OF KNOXVILLE: LEOLA MANNING thedocumentrecordsstore.com/leola-mannin... We went looking for the woman behind the voice — and disappeared into Knoxville in 1929, lost recordings, forgotten musicians and a remarkable story.

Leola Manning, Odessa Cansler and Eugene Ballinger, most likely on a recorded set

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

FROM THE HALLOWEEN VAULTS 🎃 Memphis Minnie – “Hoodoo Lady” (1936) Hoodoo isn’t Halloween. It is an African American tradition of rootwork and conjure — but this wonderful 1936 blues certainly has the ingredients for our Halloween collection. Recorded in Chicago, 18 Feb 1936. Vocalion 03222

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Hoodoo Lady - Memphis Minnie

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sorry we have been on the missing list but "Well, Folks, Here We Are Again, Red Hot And Raring To Go" with GID TANNER & HIS SKILLET LICKERS — 100TH ANNIVERSARY BLUE VINYL EDITION 1926–2026 . 300 copies only ! thedocumentrecordsstore.com/product/skil...

Front cover of The Skillet Lickers – 100th Anniversary 1926–2026 limited-edition vinyl LP on Document Records. Vintage-style collage featuring historic photographs of Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, original Columbia Records advertisements and a Columbia 78 rpm record label, with a large central ‘100 Years – The Skillet Lickers’ emblem. Document Records DOLP-10001.”

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Recorded in January, 1930, for the Vocalion label, "Who Dressed You Up For Easter," by the Rev. A.W. Nix, contains an original treatment of a holiday theme but also for the first time puts the dignified Rev. Nix in a compromising position . Document Records DOCD-5490 'Rev. A.W. Nix (1928-1930).

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Rev A W Nix Who Dressed You Up For Easter - Document Records

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Under the Bamboo Tree -Co-written by Bob Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson, the song was published in 1902 and went on to sell 400,000 copies in just six months— This version by Tricky featured on his album Blowback www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK_D...

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Tricky - Your Name

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

James Weldon Johnson referred to Cole, as “the single greatest force in the middle period of the development of black theatricals in America.” Robert Allen Cole Jr. (July 1, 1868 – August 2, 1911 ) was an American composer, actor, and playwright who produced and directed stage shows #blackhistory

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This Black History Month, Document Records is proud to celebrate Francis Johnson—an artist, innovator, and trailblazer whose music shaped generations to come. Learn more here www.1838blackmetropolis.com/.../a-fresh-....

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We would like to take you back to a recording from January 1928 . It has been said that Moses Mason’s Molly Man is one of the most unlikely commercial recordings ever made. And yet, here it is—a song about hot tamales, recorded in Chicago in 1928 by a Louisiana-born reverend An amazing recording !

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Molly Man

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This tintype bears tax stamps used to fund the Union in the Civil War. The band features a 5-string banjo, 2 violins, and a classical guitar, likely traveling musicians performing in homes and theatres. (Source: Hidden Witness, Jackie Napoleon Wilson, 1999

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Established in 1928 by Thermon Ruth, the group combined gospel ministry with secular entertainment, recording beloved tracks like “Precious Lord” and “Walk Around.”

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Selah Jubilee Singers of NY singing 2 selections

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

"This song is one of the greatest treasures in music history." – Lottie Kimbrough, Lost Lover Blues. We're creating a special Valentine’s Day album for our subscribers, with Lottie’s track as a standout highlight.

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Lost Lover Blues

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Herve Duerson was one of the most idiosyncratic barrelhouse pianists, known for his distinctive, energetic, and nimble style. While he used traditional accompaniment techniques like walking bass, he also introduced his own inventive figures, setting him apart from his contemporaries.

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Naptown Special

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Volume 2 of Lucille Bogan's complete works features 22 tracks recorded in Chicago (1930–1933) during the Great Depression. With Charles Avery & Walter Roland on piano, Bogan's raw lyrics reveal the struggles of survival, especially for women in tough times

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Lucille Bogan (Bessie Jackson) - Complete Recorded Works - 1923 - 1935 - Vol. 2: (March 1930 to July 1933)

Lucille Bogan (Bessie Jackson) Vol. 2 (1930-1933) - BDCD-6037. Available on CD and Download only from The Document Records Store.

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🎸 Today, we remember the incredible Earl Hooker on what would have been his birthday! Known as one of the greatest slide guitarists in blues history, Earl’s innovative style and mastery of the guitar influenced countless artists.

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EARL HOOKER - Off The Hook

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Their recording journey began in February 1932 in Atlanta, Georgia, with their debut session yielding "I Believe I'll Make a Change," a track that would later become a foundational element of Robert Johnson’s iconic "Dust My Broom. #robertjohnson #blues

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Pinetop & Lindberg - I Believe I'll Make A Change - 1932

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

What's up ? A Happy New Year from Blind Lemon Jefferson that's what

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 10/12/2024

"'Mannenberg' became an anthem for the anti-apartheid movement… Its success became a springboard for As-Shams, whose catalog would grow to include jazz, soul, funk, and fusion often with covert—or not-so-covert—political and social messages." South African Jazz Label As-Shams Gets a Second Life:

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Legendary South African Jazz Label As-Shams Gets a Second Life

Revived by the imprint Sharp-Flat, the label’s timeless catalog is as vital as it ever was.

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Document Records specialise in early African American gospel music, sermons and spirituals particularly in the pre-war period, and this pioneering company sports a vast catalogue of compilation CDs featuring giants of gospel music

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Gospel Archives

Document Records for vintage African American gospel music, sermons and spirituals. Featuring giants like Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Thomas A Dorsey and more.

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Gospel Music from DOCUMENT DOCD-5313-Gospel Classics – Various Artists – Complete Recorded Works Vol 2 (1927-1935). Death Is Riding Through The Land ""Presidential Life is in God's hands This message is for you too And , Governors remember When you are sentencing men My God is watching you "

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Sister Cally Fancy - Death Is Riding Through The Land (1)

YouTube video by The Soul of Sam Collins

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Have you go the Santa Claus Crave ? Elzadie Robinson – The Santa Claus Crave / Paramount – 12573- 10", Find this and other rare Festive Blues at our online store . You can listen to it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvU-... #blues #christmas

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Why early Blues and Jazz Christmas music needs to be on your festive playlist ! Here are 12 good reasons why it is worth discovering. Don’t be fooled into thinking that early Blues and Jazz is depressing or irrelevant to life today. #blues #christmas #recordcollectors

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Early Christmas Blues and Jazz Songs. 12 Good Reasons to Discover them

If you haven't already considered early Blues and Jazz music for your Christmas playlist here are 12 good reason why it is worth discovering

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This is the story of the incredible Django Reinhardt and how he managed to become one of the greatest guitarists ever with only two functioning fingers on his fretting hand – a skill unmatched to this day.!

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How a two-fingered man became the world’s greatest jazz guitarist

YouTube video by Behind the Music

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Happy Advent "Huddie 'Leadbelly' Ledbetter - Blues singer +guitarist. His songbook contained a large number of standard folk tunes, most adapted from previous sources. Bob Dylan once remarked, on his XM radio show, that Leadbelly was "One of the few ex-cons who recorded a popular children's album.

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Christmas Is Coming - Lead Belly

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Hello .Cowboy Santa Clause Well, I am not sure if any of this fits the bill but I wanted to make you aware of it anyway . We are long-established roots label but have remained staunchly indie ! I will write to you with more info ..thanks

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee November 30, 1915 . The Blues Revival - Various Artists Vol 1 (1963-1969) SKU DOCD-5697 " Featuring: Sleepy John Estes, vocal and guitar. (With Yank Rachel, mandolin) Brownie McGhee: vocal and guitar. #bluesrevival #blues #sonnyterryandbrowniemcghee

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The Blues Revival - Various Artists Vol 1 (1963-1969)

Experience the timeless blues of Sleepy John Estes, Brownie McGhee, and more o1. Rediscover the pre-war era with this captivating collection!

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Remembering Robert Nighthawk -Nov.30th 1909 -Nov 5th 1967 "Nobody else could play a slide like him. They think they can but they can't.... I ain't never heard anybody play a slide like Robert Nighthawk. It's wailin' man." #blues #robertnighthawk #sldeguitar #iketurner #earlhooker #guitar

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Robert Nighthawk - Prowling with the Nighthawk (1937 - 1952)

Robert Nighthawk Prowling with the Nighthawk"" - DOCD-32-20-06. Available on CD and Download only from The Document Records Store.

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

You make this instrument sound so engaging . A beautiful tone that has a genuinely moving quality . Thanks for sharing this

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This week in music history: On Nov 23, 1936, Robert Johnson held his first recording session in Room 414 of the Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, TX. He recorded classics like "Terraplane Blues," "Dust My Broom," "Sweet Home Chicago," "Ramblin' On My Mind," and "Come On In My Kitchen." #robertjohnson#blues

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Sweet Home Chicago

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

"An illustration depicting Robert Johnson's first recording session in November 1936 at the Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. The room is divided into two sections: on the left, a producer and sound engineer work with recording equipment, and on the right, Robert Johnson sits in a chair playing his guitar in front of a vintage microphone. The room is warmly lit, with pastel-colored walls, wooden accents, and simple furnishings, including a striped armchair and framed artwork on the walls. The scene captures the intimate and historic atmosphere of the session.Art by The Daily Planet, Don Wilson & Peter Amft.

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

We support the established music magazines and the indies . " PLEASE SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND GROUPS Making a Scene Presents our Newsletter for Nov 27 2024 Issue 476 READ IN OVER 30 COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE! www.makingascene.org #indiemagazine #blues #indie #musicjournalist

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MAKING A SCENE - The #1 Resource for the Indie Artist and the Fans that Love them! Making a Scene

Making a scene is the #1 Resource for the Indie artist and the fans that Love them!

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Our next newsletter is coming soon with new Christmas releases: Blues Blues Christmas 7 & A Honky Tonk Christmas, fine art prints, and festive deals. Plus, the Gospel Classics series is on special offer from noon tomorrow. Here's a preview: Jessie May Hill from Volume 1.

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Earth Is No Resting Place

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Document Records @documentrecords.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

We checked this out and our only criticism is the price! Some really engaging music here that seems to us to be under valued . Well not up to us and we understand the financial struggle is real .. well worth a listen

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