Ida Cox with Dodds Ladnier Death Letter Blues KY Man Jazz Blues 78 E-V+
  $   75

 


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Nov 26, 2025 Sold Date
Oct 31, 2025 Start Date
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Description

ARTIST:  Ida Cox acc. Lovie Austin and Her Blues Serenaders
LABEL:   Paramount 12220
TITLES:  Death Letter Blues / Kentucky Man Blues
CONDITION:  E-V+
DESCRIPTION:  Ida Cox Paramount backed by a small Lovie Austin band featuring Tommy Ladnier and Johnny Dodds.  Superb Ladnier solo on "Death Letter Blues".  Dodds and Ladnier mesh well with Cox's vocals throughout both sides.

78 GRADING:  We use the universally recognized VJM (Vintage Jazz Mart) 78 rpm system in grading our 78s with some streamlining as noted,  eliminating some of the hair splitting on records graded V- and below (G+, G, G-, F).  

E+

Highest grade used. A record that might have minor handling marks but has no visible signs of wear.  N, N- and E+ records will all be graded as E+.


E
Record has slight signs of handling and use but groove wear should be barely detectable and grooves should still be glossy and black. 

E-
Light groove wear with grey rubbing and light circular gray grooves starting to appear, but record should still retain glossy black grooves for almost all of the surface.

V+
Grey wear, handling and groove wear more apparent, but much of the groove area will still have black.

V
Record is approaching an overall grey surface with uniform wear, but will still play well even though the level of surface noise and distortion could be distracting.

V-
Record has wear throughout, and was subject to continual playing to wring more sound out of it, so even the grey is in a more advanced state of deterioration with groove walls disappearing.

P
This grade generally indicates poor condition on a good title.


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