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How Low Can You Go?

by Various Artists

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about

Not so long ago, the string bass stood tall and proud — roughly the length and breadth of a pine coffin — in every musical aggregation throughout the land from Bangor to Buenos Aires, from the highest high life to the lowest lowdown: From tuxedoed symphony ensembles to tipsy calypso bands to honkytonkers in oil-field dives, from elegantly gelled tango orchestras to jazz combos in unspeakable speak-easys to methed-out rockabilly trios right off some flatbed.

This 79-track set, the first ever anthology of the upright bass, explores the earliest recorded history of the instrument. Without it, the revolutionary sound of American mongrel music of the last century would have been thin gruel indeed.

Bass Player Magazine: “Few releases are as special and fun as this new set, which uncovers the origins of recorded upright bass.”

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released November 21, 2006

Produced by: Steven Lance Ledbetter, Dick Spottswood

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