Blues bring joy to tiny Scots record label as US archive secures future

A small Scottish record label has managed to secure an archive of rarely heard pre-war recordings by the American Edison Company to help guarantee the future of the world's largest acoustic blues archive. Document Records, based in the village of Bladnoch, Wigtownshire, has secured the rights to release more than 360 hours of recordings made by the American inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. In doing so it has helped to allow the label - which was set up 15 years ago to collate and archive thousands of shellac and vinyl 78rpm recordings and transfer them into digital format - to continue its work