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of the Document CDs and I absolutely slammed them. I couldn't understand. I didn't get it. I didn't
understand it. I can't remember who it was. It was something like Bing Bo Bill and someone, it was
like a religious thing and listening to it just as a music fan and even as a collector, I couldn't

understand it. I thought it was dreadful and I wrote as much and then when I got the third or fourth
album, the penny dropped, and I thought I know what this guy's doing, he's making it all available.
He's documenting and that means everything, the good, the bad and the ugly and when I realised
that I just thought this was fantastic.

Gillian: I think another issue that we've got, I mean it's basically Gary and I and we do have some
more people who help us, there's so much now that we didn't know for instance about artists not

only do you think oh, should I find a better copy of this if I repressed a CD, but then when I look at
the sleeve notes often written by academics, intellectuals or hardcore blues fans there's so much
more available now isn't there, online? It's massive what you can find out. Gary just put up something
the other day.

BiTS: There's so much information on a website like Weenie Campbell. It's just phenomenal.

Gillian: Oh, I love that. I often refer back to that,
but we also joined, well Gary's been doing this
for years, Gary joined Ancestry and
Newspaper.com and things like that. We often
get film studios wanting to use tracks or wanting

to know more about who wrote them and the
publishing. Sometimes if that can't be found Gary
will go away and actually start a tree in Ancestry
to see if we can trace it, so there's all that side
of it as well.

Gary: I started today, only because I was putting
a post up on Facebook and this is a typical day at
Document, if you like, well typical day for Gary
and Gillian.

Gillian: You can't get anything done.

Gary: I can't get anything done because I thought I'll start the day, cup of coffee for me, great. I'll
put a post up on Facebook and I'm trying to do them every day and that doesn't always happen and
I've missed the last two days for various reasons, I get very annoyed with myself about that, but I
just thought nice little job, 20 minutes. I'll just write a little piece about this and what turned out to

be an 'on this day' post, so it's on this day somebody was born, or somebody died, or somebody had
appeared live in a festival or somebody went into the recording studio and da da da da. The majority
of them are recordings and every day now I've gone through this so much, but each day is very
difficult because I have something like a dozen different people just from the pre-war side who have
recorded. It's quite a difficult choice to decide who we're going to have for today and the one that I
spotted for today, was a big favourite of mine, Casey Bill Weldon and so I started off. On this day
16th September in 1930 whatever, and then I want to say something after that, and it's got to be right.

I'm writing this out and people are going to be watching it from the most casual listener to the most

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