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Albums

 * Stringing the Blues with Joe Venuti (CBS, 1962)
 * Jazz Guitar Virtuoso (Yazoo, 1977)
 * A Handful of Riffs (ASV/Living Era, 1989)
 * Pioneers of Jazz Guitar 1927–1938 (Yazoo, 1992)
 * Blue Guitars, Vols. 1 & 2 with Lonnie Johnson (BGO, 1997)
 * The Quintessential Eddie Lang (Timeless, 1998)
 * The New York Sessions 1926–1935 with Joe Venuti (JSP, 2003)
 * The Classic Columbia and Okeh Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang (Mosaic, 2002)
 * 1927–1932 (Chronological Classics, 2004)

Albums
===Solo projects ===

Awards
County Records founder David Freeman was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 2002.




 * The bluegrass reader, By Thomas Goldsmith, Published by University of Illinois Press, 2004, ISBN 0252029143, 9780252029141, 353 pages, Charles Wolfe article p 157-164, reprint from Bluegrass Unlimited, 15, Dec 1980, pp 50-55.


 * In County Sales Newsletter # 290, Dave Freeman sez:
 * As we enter our 43rd year of selling Bluegrass and Old-Time music, we thought it was a good time to reflect back on some of the changes that have occurred since we put out our first few Newsletters back in 1965 and 1966. At that time—when it only took a 6 cent stamp to mail our Newsletter, and just 15 cents postage to mail 2 LPs anywhere in the USA!—there were hardly enough new releases (vinyl LPs) to fill up even two or three pages of space every couple of months.   We can’t recall the existence of any significant books about the music at the time, and there were no such things as DVDs or VHS tapes. We scrambled to find news about Fiddlers’ Conventions and even word of future LP releases—there were probably not more than 25 or 30 Bluegrass LPs on the market then, and the revival of interest in “Old-Time” music was in its infancy.  In contrast, there is a wealth of great items available today:  more good records than we can keep up with, a bunch of  amazing DVDs, and in the last two issues alone, 3 or 4 excellent books  (in short, more items in one month than we had to offer in the first 2 or 3 years of COUNTY SALES’ existence combined!).   What has accounted for the rise in popularity of this wonderful rural American art form that we love?  A music that was once mostly associated with sleazy bars and honky tonks, and dismissed by many as inferior, low-life “hillbilly” trash has finally gained a significant measure of respect, and is now a healthy, family type pursuit.  The early Bluegrass Festivals, “Dueling Banjos”, “Bonnie & Clyde” and “O Brother Where Art Thou” all have helped greatly in gaining exposure for Bluegrass, but we owe special thanks to the early pioneers who brought respect to the music through their writing & promoting: people like the late Ralph Rinzler, Bill Vernon, and Charles Wolfe, and those still involved today like Bill Malone, Neil Rosenberg, Lance Leroy and Mike Seeger.  And a special thanks to all those festival promoters who have insisted on keeping their events clean and family oriented, after a flurry of ill-conceived, rock-based “peace, love, & Bluegrass” fiascos in the early 1970s almost  brought an early end to what is now a very healthy phenomenon.
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