Joe Bussard, who started amassing rare recordings of early American jazz, blues, nation and gospel new music as a teen and designed 1 of the world’s foremost non-public collections of
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Joe Bussard, Obsessive Collector of Scarce Information, Dies at 86
Joe Bussard, who made it his life’s obsession to accumulate exceptional 78 r.p.m. records — some 15,000 of them, encompassing jazz, blues, state, jug band and gospel — and who