"Although you may have heard and owned the legendary (...) albums that first brought these legendary performers out of obscurity since the 1950's and '60s, you haven't really heard these tracks at all. Not like this. Forget bad dubs of worn-out 78s pressed on poor vinyl. The "reverse engineering" transfers by Nicholas Bergh and subsequent restorations are so startlingly better, practically everything you will ever have experienced from this era can be discounted ... The clarity of group recordings where every instrument is well defined, and of solo artist where their instruments and voices suddenly sound real, will have you on the edge of your seat ... Suddenly, legendary artists are in the room with you, and some lesser-known performers turn out to be far better than you remember ... It certainly gives all this extraordinary music, many of the greats of black and white blues, old time country, gospel, Cajun, Tejano, Puerto Rican, Hawaiian and much more (...) as good a chanceasit's ever likely to get. I think this superb and well-balanced selection should win anybody over. Criticism? A bit more biographical detail on the artists could be useful"