I've been listening to the Harry Smith B-Sides box all week (most recently as I type). I've heard many reissues of old 78s of traditional music over the decades, the first of them probably around 1970. My shelves groan with collections of old-time string bands, blues, Hawaiian, Cajun, bluegrass, cowboy, early honkytonk, and the like. I am struck, however, by how much on HSB-S I haven't heard before, amid some familiar (yet always welcome) numbers. I mean, how can you get sick of "Bull Doze Blues" or "The Storms Are on the Ocean" or ... well, you can find out for yourself.

The notes are entertaining, the sound quality is excellent, the songs even better. A masterly job all around, and definitely worth adding to your collection.