Revolting Music from the Public Domain (1914-1928)

by Analog Revolution

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Packbat Fun lo-fi roots rock and classic Americana - also a really cool glimpse into some unfamiliar cultural ideas from a hundred years ago. Favorite track: Big Rock Candy Mountain.

Venya Gritty and minimal, but compelling. Century-old blues still resonates. Favorite track: 'Lectric Chair Blues.

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1.	Doctor Deathray - Devil's Gonna Git You 03:06	info	buy track
2.	Doctor Deathray - St. Louis Blues 03:18	info	buy track
3.	Doctor Deathray - Big Rock Candy Mountain 02:08	info	buy track
4.	Doctor Deathray - Peg Leg Howell Blues 02:42	info	buy track
5.	Doctor Deathray - He May Be Your Man (But He Comes to See Me Sometimes) 02:10	info	buy track
6.	Doctor Deathray - 'Lectric Chair Blues 04:23	info	buy track
7.	Edna Hicks - Save Your Man and Satisfy Your Soul 03:07	info	buy track
8.	Sara Martin & Sylvester Weaver - I've Got to Go and Leave My Daddy Behind 02:41	info	buy track
9.	Sylvester Weaver - Guitar Rag 02:59	info	buy track
10.	King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band with Louis Armstrong - Riverside Blues 02:52	info	buy track
11.	James P. Johnson - The Harlem Strut 02:36	info	buy track
12.	Edna Hicks - Mistreatin' Daddy 03:01	info	buy track

about

Why 1923?

From the dawn of music recordings until 2022, not a single musical recording entered the public domain due to copyright expiration in the United States. Musical recordings were protected under a patchwork of state laws and contracts, but explicitly they were not protected by copyright. This meant that most musical recordings were protected forever, and establishing the rights to a piece of music was very difficult.
Congress passed a law called the Music Modernization Act which made this situation slightly better. In 2022 all recordings from 1922 and earlier entered the public domain. In 2023, nothing happened, and in 2024, all recordings released in 1923 entered the public domain.

Importantly, these compositions were already in the public domain, but the specific recordings were not.

Now, why 1923, and not some later year? Fear and greed, mostly. In 1923, we’re looking at the genesis of modern music, but we’re still dealing with very primitive acoustic recording technology and we’re really just looking at the roots of what will become modern music. The first blues guitar, the first jazz piano, vaudeville blues, dixieland. Over the next several years, we’ll get an Explosion of new music.

Next year, we’ll get the music from 1924. In 1924, we find the first widespread use of Electrical recording. It’s a watershed moment. We also get some of the earliest country music, and the first recording of Rhapsody in Blue in 24. By 1925, we’ll start to see more guitar blues, new styles of Jazz, and lots of other things.

But, for now, we have 1923, and there’s a lot to celebrate in the recordings of 1923.

Why 1928?

In 1998 the US congress passed a law commonly refereed to as The Mickey Mouse Protection Act. It paused copyright expiration for 20 years, for basically no reason other than to keep Mickey Mouse from entering the public domain.

This year, Mickey Mouse’s protection expires. As of today, Steamboat Willie is in the public domain.

But, so far at least, we’re not talking about animation, we’re talking about music. Due to the differences between how Recordings and Compositions were copyrighted, all published musical compositions from 1928 and earlier are in the public domain. You can’t do anything with most recordings made from 24 - 28, but you can cover those compositions and produce new recordings.

and so we have!

credits

released January 1, 2024

DOCTOR DEATHRAY
Devil’s Gonna Get Ya
St Louis Blues
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Peg Leg Howell Blues (medley)
He May be your man, but he comes to see me sometimes
‘lectric Chair blues

EDNA HICKS
Save Your Man and Satisfy Your Soul
Mistreatin' Daddy

SARA MARTIN
I’ve Got to Go and Leave My Daddy Behind

SYLVESTER WEAVER
Guitar Rag

KING OLIVER (W/ LOUIS ARMSTRONG)
Riverside Blues

JAMES P JOHNSON
The Harlem Strut

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