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CORRECTION: The Smithsonian not the Library of Congress has been reissuing the Folkways albums on vinyl. On 4/20/2012 10:42 AM, Jeremy Smith wrote: > > I would argue that we are in a reissue renaissance when it comes to > vinyl. The growth in vinyl sales has created a market for labels like > Light in the Attic, Sundazed, Rhino and dozens of others to reissue > known rock artists as well as artists in many other genres such as > country, jazz, funk, r&b, soul, pop and folk. Light In the Attic > alone has reissued artists as disparate as the Louvin Brothers, Serge > Gainsbourg, Lee Hazlewood, Betty Davis and dozens of others. The > Library of Congress has even gotten into the act by reissuing vinyl > editions of many classic Folkways albums on vinyl. In addition, many > of the major indie labels of the 90s such as Merge, Dischord, and Drag > City have reissued remastered vinyl of their back catalogs as well as > digging out never before heard of artists from the 60s and 70s. > > I now find it odd when I can't find a release (new or old) on vinyl. > -- Jeremy Smith Digital Project Manager, W. E. B. Du Bois Digitization Project Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts-Amherst 154 Hicks Way Amherst MA 01003 413.545.6729 project twitter: @WEB_Du_Bois http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/