My pal
is a pretty awesome and voracious record collector, particularly when it comes to old Appalachian/regional stuff. Recently, she dug out an old Ebay find for the
blog: the
News-American
's
Baltimore Diary 1773-1973
LPs. Compiled for the bicentennial, the collection's divided into American heritage type tracks like "God Bless America," "The Twist," and "Shenandoah," while "the first [record] is a narrative compiled from stories (and weird classified ads) from
, 'Baltimore's first and oldest newspaper', which ceased publication in 1986," she writes on her blog,
. From the back cover:
You can find audio of both sides of that first record
.
