Down To High Street

When I started this project, I knew there would be obscure and unusual records important to understanding the history of Columbus music. Pretty early on, someone tipped me to Raven, and the story of his 1975 album Back to Ohio Blues. It's the sort of ear candy anyone doing research wants to investigate. A lone release, decades old, produced only for family and friends, no name attached, finding an audience (albeit small one). After almost thirty years, a vinyl reissue is done in 2012 thanks Mike "Rep" Hummel, signed and numbered. Total collector bait, but worth it nonetheless. The record is wild primitive blues, drugged out and disjointed, but compelling, easy to see why it would turn into a legend worth repeating.