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Grammy Award Winner, 2016 - Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Volume One was called "spectacular" (New York Times), "unprecedented" (Rolling Stone), "breathtaking" (Boing Boing), "a cabinet of wonder, indeed" (Pitchfork), and "the most perfectly realized attempt to combine music and documentation" (Fretboard Journal) and "damnedest musical objet d'art I've ever seen" (Nashville Scene).

On November 18, Jack White's Third Man and John Fahey's Revenant present the final volume in the Paramount story - The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume Two (1928-32).

By 1928, after launching the recording careers of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Blind Lemon Jefferson, King Oliver, Alberta Hunter, Ma Rainey and Blind Blake, Paramount was entitled to a breather. But just as it seemed the label might be losing steam, it began a second act that threatened to dwarf its first.

From 1928-32, the label embarked on a furious run for the ages, birthing the entire genre of Mississippi Delta blues recordings and issuing some of the most coveted 78s in the history of wax, by the likes of: Skip James, Charley Patton, Son House, Tommy Johnson, Willie Brown, King Solomon Hill, Rube Lacy, Ishman Bracey, Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas, The Mississippi Sheiks, and hundreds of others.

Paramount simply killed. But more than that, it changed how America thought of itself. It was the first and most comprehensive chronicler of what America really sounded like - on its street corners, at its fish fries and country suppers, in its nightclubs and dance halls and showtents. In the process, it was profit-minded Paramount - not a preservationist body like the Library of Congress - that created the richest repository of this young nation's greatest art form.

Six LPs, 800 digital tracks on a custom USB drive, two definitive large-format books. All housed in a vintage velvet-upholstered, polished aluminum case evoking the era's high art deco stylings, the National metal-bodied guitar, and America's own Machine Age modernism.

* 800 newly-remastered digital tracks, representing 175 artists
* 90+ fully-restored original 1920s-30s Paramount ads from Chicago Defender
* 6 x 180g LPs pressed on label-less alabaster-white vinyl, each side with its own hand-etched numeral and hand-scratched holographic image
* 250 pg. large-format clothbound hardcover book featuring original Paramount art and the label's curious tale
* 400 pg. encyclopedia-style softcover field guide containing artist bios & portraits and full Paramount discography
* First-of-its-kind music and image player app containing all tracks and ads, housed on streamline moderne USB drive
* Polished aluminum and stainless steel cabinet, evoking 1930s high art deco stylings and America's Machine Age take on modernist design

Track Listings Disc: 1   1. I'm So Glad
  2. Knocking Down Casey Jones
  3. Please Baby
  4. Clanka A Lanka -Sleep On Mother
  5. I'm Goin' Home
  6. Five O'Clock Stomp
  7. Tired Of Being Mistreated Part I
  8. Tim Brook
  9. Jab Blues
  10. Motherless Child Blues
  11. Tear It Down
  12. Easy Rider Blues
  13. San
  14. St. Louis Daddy

Disc: 2   1. Rolling Log Blues
  2. Chimes Blues
  3. West Virginia Blues
  4. Wasn't That A Mighty Day
  5. Hastings St.
  6. Reuben Oh Reuben
  7. Special Rider Blues
  8. Mammy's Lullaby
  9. The Gone Dead Train
  10. Take Your Burdens To The Lord
  11. Louisiana Glide
  12. Rounders Lament
  13. M & O Blues
  14. Oh What Is The Matter Now

Disc: 3   1. Gamblers Blues - St. James Infirmary Blues
  2. High Water Everywhere - Part I
  3. South African Blues
  4. A Railroad Lover For Me
  5. Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake
  6. Frisco Bound
  7. Big Bed Bug
  8. Down On My Bended
  9. Adam And Eve In The Garden
  10. Walkin' Blues
  11. Fire Detective Blues
  12. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues
  13. Wasn't It Sad About Lemon
  14. Cold Woman Blues
  15. Sleepy Desert
  16. Last Kind Words Blue

Disc: 4   1. Fare Thee Well - Part II
  2. Wicked Treatin' Blues
  3. Stone Mountain Wobble
  4. Black Eye Blues
  5. Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues
  6. Vicksburg Blues
  7. Jim Lee Blues - Part I
  8. When The Saints Go Marching In
  9. Long, Deep And Wide
  10. Mississippi Jail House Groan
  11. Keep A Knockin' An You Can't Get In
  12. Dry Spell Blues - Part I
  13. If You Haven't Any Hay Get On Down The Road
  14. Tell Me To Do Right
  15. Prayer Of Death

Disc: 5   1. I Declare My Mother Ought To Live Right
  2. Woman Woman Blues
  3. 'Cause I Feel Low Down
  4. Diddie Wa Diddie
  5. Troubled 'Bout My Soul
  6. Rattlesnake Blues
  7. Only The Blues
  8. He Done What The World Couldn't Do
  9. The New Stop And Listen
  10. A Sermon On A Silver Dollar
  11. Nehi Blues
  12. One Way Gal
  13. Devil Got My Woman
  14. By The Moon And Stars
  15. Tom Cat Blues

Disc: 6   1. My Black Mama - Part II
  2. God s Getting Worried
  3. I Wish I Had Died In Egyptland - Pt. I
  4. Pick Poor Robin Clean
  5. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
  6. The Escaped Convict
  7. Lonesome Home Blues
  8. Black And Tan Fantasy
  9. Good Cocaine -Mama Don't Allow It
  10. In That Pearly White City Above
  11. A Rag Blues
  12. Farewell Baby Blues
  13. I Believe I'll Go Back
  14. Going Away Blues

Product details Vinyl (December 2, 2014) Number of Discs: 6 Label: Third Man Records Run Time: 33.00 minutes ASIN: B00NV8YDJ2