"Since I am the truth," respondeth the tube, "I have nothing to say that is not already declared by my sound."
"But I must have the truth, and without bias!" proclaimeth the audiophile.
"What good is a tube without bias?" answereth the tube.
I never met Audio Research Corporation founder William Zane Johnson, who died in 2011. But when he founded his now-legendary company in 1970, I and my ragged troupe of Dynaco modifiers were in the trenches, fighting the sand-warrior hordes during the first transistor onslaught.
This makes me sad. I wasn't just a client of Lyric; I worked there.
Few music anthologies have been as influential as Harry Everett Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (Smithsonian Folkways SFW 40090), which was first released in 1952 as an 84-track, 6-LP set. Without it, it is possible that many of the musicians represented would have languished in obscurityincluding such artists as Mississippi John Hurt.
