The article discusses the life and works of record collector James McKune. He was born in 1910 in North Carolina but moved to New York City in the 1930s where he got a job as a copyeditor. He began collecting race records and combined the pages of record trading magazines and pored through the bins at used record stores. He was tagged as a real mentor and had all his records placed in card boxes under his bed and he scorned any African American music that had any kind of popular following.