Title: Only for the hard-core or for historical research
Review: I love juju music, and I love old recordings from the 30s and 40s (lots of old Hawaiian, Bluegrass, and early Singing Cowboy discs in my collection). I usually don't mind the LP noise because that's part of the package. In this case, however, I was very disappointed--angry, really--at the poor job of remastering the vinyl or orignial tapes to CD. For the first few tracks, I could barely hear the music above the clicks and hisses. It was only at about the two-thirds mark through the CD that the music was louder than the noise. Furthermore, I found that less than half of the music sounded even remotely like juju music--probably about a third. I really doubt that the earliest, middle-eastern sounding tracks(from what I could tell through the noise) had any role in the creation and evolution of juju. A guide to World Music that I read called this disc "essential." I call it a ripoff.
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