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v/a - sprigs of time: 78s from the emi archive - honest jons records - vinyl

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Genre: Funk / Soul

An eccentric survey of the Hayes shelves, Sprigs of Time is thirty tracks recorded between 1903 and 1957, everywhere from England (Percy Grainger's recording of the title song, sung by Joseph Taylor in 1908) to Japan.

Honest Jon’s has spent the last two years delving through more than 150,000 78 records in the temperature-controlled steel vaults of EMI’s Archive in Hayes, Middlesex. Following studious compilations of West African and Iraqi music of the 1920s, the latest release in the Honest Jon’s Hayes Archive series is a sparkling late-summer lucky dip, Sprigs of Time.