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John Tefteller's 2020 Blues Calendar is NOW shipping!
My Museum-Quality Pre-War Blues 78's. TRULY the Rarest Records on Earth!

My Museum-Quality Pre-War Blues 78 Sleeves, Colored 78's and Museum-Quality 45's.

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Volume 20! With a FREE CD, Restored using the FANTASTIC method heard in American Epic!

SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE IN THE ROOM WITH THEM AS THEY PERFORM!

Plus the Newly Discovered Edith North Johnson Paramount!

THIS 25-Track CD is the BEST-SOUNDING SONGS WE'VE EVER HAD!


With songs from Funny Paper Smith, Irene Scruggs, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake and MORE!

John Tefteller's 2019 Blues Calendar is NOW shipping!
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"Baby Keeps Stealing Lovin' "
The Mississippi Sheiks
Okeh 8843

The very first Pre-War Blues Record I ever found! I was 16 years old, and it was in a pile of original Okeh stock that was being dumped at the Sundown Swap Meet in Whittier, CA. I traded it for a Jack Benny radio transcription at the time, then, years later, I was visiting with Richard Nevins, from Yazoo and told him the story of my First-Ever Pre-War Blues record, which I had traded away.
He smiled and asked me if I still had it. I replied "No." He reached into his 78 collection and pulled out that same exact record! Richard then gave it to me as a present, saying "This means more to you than it does to me."

Thanks, Richard!