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Engineers Restore Ma Rainey's Lost Notes After 100 Years
Audio engineers recovered hidden violin parts and powerful vocal notes from Ma Rainey's 1920s recordings that old technology couldn't play. The new box set reveals the full brilliance of the "Mother of the Blues" for the first time in a century.
