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Champaign’s Archeophone Records Revisited

 

A record label in Champaign is making a name for itself by selling old recordings... really old ones... some of them originally on wax cylinder. Archeophone Records specializes in music made between the late 1800's and the early 1920's - music that is virtually ignored by the big labels in this era of the iPod. Archeophone has been praised by scholars, and won a Grammy for its efforts. In a new version of a story first aired on March 5, AM 580's Jeff Bossert reports.