Amanda Petrusich interviewed these obsessives for Do Not Sell at Any Price, and here they talk about their best finds: a Brazilian choro masterpiece, the Okeh Crying Record, a pseudonymous 1927 Sam Collins disc, and prewar music from Epirus.
With three recent releases, "Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939," "I Wasn't Born to Rock'n Roll," and "Unheard Ofs & Forgotten Abouts," New York's Tompkins Square Records keeps following twists and turns in the history of American music.