"'Those are the leftovers of my husband's business,' Irene Harris explained to her neighbor Luria Sutera in 1999, describing the heavy cardboard storage barrels. 'He was in the record business. When I die, I am going to leave you my collection of records in the basement, and there is some Woody Guthrie down there that no one has ever heard...'"
Nice Wall Street Journal piece about obsolete records found in barrels in a Brooklyn tenement storage space. These 2000 nickel-plated copper discs hold unusually faithful recordings of Woody Guthrie’s voice.
