The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 Limited Edition

$

315

The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records: Volume 1 Limited Edition Chestnut Vinyl is a stunning, unique box set that will make a striking addition to your listening room or living space. It’s sure to become a conversation starter among your friends.
This is my personal copy and it's in excellent condition, smoke-free environment. I played only a few tracks of one of the records, the rest were never played. The chestnut box has a couple of very tiny, barely visible marks (ask me for more pics before buying if you want to see more details).  
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The Rise & Fall of Paramount, Volume One takes the form of a curated exhibit of words, images and music with Paramount at its fulcrum, all housed in a lush handcrafted cabinet that harkens back to the wunderkammern, precursors to the modern museum. Crafted as an object to keep and cherish for a lifetime, its form is designed to reveal evidence of the hand at work, to bring out the tactile richness of hand-sculpted woods and metals, and to meld the rough-hewn with the earliest burblings of American modernism in the 1920s. Its multi-format narrative tells the curious tale of the only pre-War record label to capture what America truly sounded like in the 1920s, in all its multitudes.
This amazing handcrafted set contains: - SIX 180g LPs w/ hand-engraved metal leaf center labels on burled chestnut vinyl -Deluxe large-format hardcover art book: 250 pages, narrative with full-color plates -Encyclopedia-style reference manual: 360 pages, field guide to artists & repertoire -Handcrafted elements: rich woods, lush upholstery, and custom-forged metal hardware -200+ fully-restored original ads and images - Included is a 'Jobber-Luxe' player, which enables the user to manage over 800 tracks from the Paramount catalog, some of which are included on the 6x Burled Chestnut Vinyl LPs included in the Boxset. The USB is custom designed to look like a Victrola stylus.
"What is best about America is in this box." - Jack White
"One of the damnedest musical objets d'art ever seen." - Nashville Scene
"Unprecedented." - Rolling Stone
"Wondrous. These recordings are no less than a blueprint of what has become American music. At once, it is a history lesson, a dance hall, a bandstand, and a smoky blues parlor, all tucked neatly into one sturdy box. This is the Cabinet of Wonder, indeed." - Pitchfork
Volume One (1917-1927) chronicles Paramount's improbable rise from also-ran to jazz-blues juggernaut, launching the recording careers of giants like King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Alberta Hunter, Blind Blake, Ethel Waters, Ma Rainey, Papa Charlie Jackson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Fats Waller.

The Rise and Fall wonder-cabinet gives equal status to page-turning narrative and new scholarship; original and newly created graphic art; industrial design; and compelling analog and digital music experiences. ‘
Features: Volume One contains the following:
- 6 x 180-gram vinyl LPs pressed on burled chestnut colored vinyl with hand-engraved, blind-embossed gold-leaf labels housed in a laser-etched white birch LP folio - 800 newly-remastered digital tracks, representing 172 artists and accessible via a first-of-its-kind music and image player app that allows user management of all tracks and ads, housed on a custom-designed USB drive - 250-page large-format, clothbound hardcover art book - 360-page encyclopedia-style softcover field guide containing artist portraits and full Paramount discography - 200+ fully-restored original 1920s ads and images - Handcrafted quarter-sawn oak cabinet with sage velvet upholstery and custom-forged metal hardware
How did a Wisconsin chair company, producing records on the cheap and run by men with little knowledge of their audience or the music business, build one of the greatest musical rosters ever assembled under one roof? The answer lies in The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932, an epic, omnibus of art, words, and music housed in limited-edition, hand-sculpted “Cabinets of Wonder,” jointly released by Jack White’s Third Man Records and John Fahey’s Revenant Records. Volume One covers the label’s improbable rise from 1917-1927.
Paramount Records was founded on a modest proposition: produce records as cheaply as possible, recording whatever talent was available. Over its lifetime, the label would become a “race records” powerhouse, its sound and fortunes directly linked to the Great Migration. By the time Paramount ceased operations in 1932, it had compiled a dizzying array of performers still unrivaled to this day, spanning early jazz titans (Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller), blues masters (Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Skip James), American divas (Ma Rainey, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters), gospel (Norfolk Jubilee Quartette), vaudeville (Papa Charlie Jackson), and the indefinable “other” (Geeshie Wiley, Elvie Thomas). Paramount would also directly influence the style of Robert Crumb and countless other 20th century artists and illustrators through a series of hand-drawn ads promoting its releases in the pages of the Chicago Defender.
The 'Rise and Fall’ wonder-cabinet gives equal status to page-turning narrative and new scholarship, original and newly created graphic art, industrial design, and compelling analog and digital music experiences.
Dimensions: Length - 18.5", Width - 16", Height - 5.75” Weight: 24 lbs.
Selections:
LP 1
1. Sign of Judgment
2. Dry Bone shuffle
3. My man Rocks Me
4. Sweet Georgia Brown
5. St. Louis blues
6. Pistol Blues
7. Old Joe Clark
8. Coffee Pot Blues
9. Old Steady Roll
10. Wait Till I Put On My Robe
11. Messin Around
12. Madison Street Rag
13. Mama Can't Lose
14. Barnum's Steam Calliope

LP 2
1. Skoodlum Blues
2. Jelly Roll's First Cousin
3. Come On Home
4. Drunk Man's Blues
5. Rainy Nights
6. How Long Daddy, How Long
7. Mr. Jelly Lord
8. Anna Mina Forty and St. Louis Shorty
9. coffin Blues
10. Pump Tillie
11. You Shall
12. Well of Salvation
13. Goose Grease
14. Brown Baby

LP 3
1. Dying Blues
2. Charleston Mad
3. Certainly Lord
4. 216 Blues
5. Chicago Buzz
6. Mamlish Blues
7. I'm Glad I'm Married
8. Steady Roll
9. Nelson Blues
10. Track Linin
11. Bessemer Bound Blues
12. Everybody Help the Boys Come Home
13. Crazy Quilt
14. Shaggy Dog Blues
15. My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)
16. Jazzbo Jenkins

LP 4
1. Sleep Baby Sleep
2. Salty Dog
3. Memory of Departed Friends
4. House Rent Stomp
5. West Indies Blues
6. Nobody Knows
7. Steppin' On the Blues
8. Walk Right In Belmont
9. When I Was A Moaner
10. Steady Roll
11. Satan at Church
12. Pacific Coast Blues
13. Look Out Papa Don't Tear Your Pants
14. Baby Can't You Understand
15. Seek and Ye Shall Find

LP 5
1. Will My Mother Know Me There
2. Hot Hot Hottentot
3. Ain't It A Shame
4. The Wicked Fives' Blues
5. Armour Ave. Struggle
6. Houston Bound
7. Coo Coo Stomp
8. You Can't Keep No Brown
9. Stomp Time Blues
10. I've Got A Hiding Place
11. Cacklin' Hen
12. Fade Away Blues
13. Mama's Angel Child
14. Black Man Blues

LP 6
1. Hen House Blues
2. Mojo Strut
3. Sympathetic Christ
4. That Da Da Strain
5. Wartime Blues
6. There'll Come A Day
7. On Calvary
8. St. Louis Blues
9. On This Rock I Will Build My Church
10. Don't Pan Me
11. Play That Thing
12. I Want Jesus to Talk With Me
13. Peepin' Blues
14. Cecilia

USB Drive contains 800+ songs