The 1920s Radio Network - Old

Musical nostalgia can flatten history into pastiche but The 1920s Radio Network approaches the era with genuine curatorial respect. The programming features recordings from the 1920s through early '30s - jazz, blues, pop standards, novelty recordings, spoken word material from early radio broadcasts. It's treating this period as living music rather than museum preservation. The 192kbps bitrate accommodates the wide dynamic range of historical recordings without over-processing them. At that bandwidth you hear both the fragility of acoustic recording technology and the musical sophistication ha…