fingertrouble | depression (new digital debris) (Reply)

I go back to 1929 via 78. 2(00)9 recurring, as we crash, crash, crash. Crunch.

OK a lot of you may not even have heard of Radio Clash's shy sibling, the arts/experimental podcast digital debris.

Well finally got to the 3rd proper episode 'depression'.

Loads of classic Great Depression-themed 78rpm records (quite a few that everyone will have heard at some point, maybe not in the original versions here), readings from novels of the time, and maybe an inkling, crackly messages from '29, of ways of coping during the 2009 recession? Interspersed with bits from the 1935 novel by Horace McCoy and 1969 film, They Shoot Horses Don't They? to even up the happy happy sunshine score.

I can't say in words how much I love 1920s and 1930s music, a lot seems as current today as then, and I set up digital debris in part to play out of copyright 78's - so here is a show dedicated to them, at a time when economic uncertainty in the songs echoes through the years and resonates today. Or is that just the knitting needle stylus buzzing? I don't know...