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After spending the '30s as a truck driver, he was contacted by a group of enthusiasts, fitted out with a new set of teeth and set on his second career as a professional musician. He is now regarded internationally as one of the great jazz legends of all time. The basic elements of the band heard on this CD were recruited for his first recording session in 1942. Joining him was clarinettist George Lewis, trombonist Jim Robinson, banjoist Lawrence Marrero, bass player Alcide 'Slow Drag' Pavageau and Warren 'Baby' Dodds who had already recorded with King Oliver, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. Despite the turbulent experiences of the band, often brought on by demands of perfection from Bunk himself, the eight Decca tracks are among its best recorded work. 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His playing had a special quality in a very personal way: his exuberant joy and endless power were counter pointed by a longing expression which gave it a blue quality all the way through. Albert's sound in general was sweeter than either Pete Johnson's or Meade Lux Lewis', his piano colleagues of the Boogie Woogie Trio. His untimely death on December 3rd, 1949, at the age of just 42, added a tragic aspect, too. By the time he passed, it was still the era of 78-rpm shellacs, and his chances to record were more limited than they would have been had he lived up to the time of Hi-Fi recording.Items of unissued material by him are especially rare collector's stuff, and this Document Records CD contains a considerable number of such. Tracks include 2 alternative takes of the swing Nagasaki and blues-boogie Early Mornin' Blues. Ammon's showpiece Boogie Woogie Stomp uses melody lines in rows of thirds. In Boogie In C and Shout for Joy, a single note rumbling bass similar to Johnson's 'Blues On The Downbeat' or 'Death Ray Boogie' is played. Blue Blue Blues is built on a similar theme to 'Blues On My Mind'. Here we find beautiful, melodic, right hand work with some lyrical qualities and a romantic touch, complemented by nicely harmonised left hand figures in stride and rolling tenths boogie bases. For the last track on this CD, Rock of Gibraltar Blues, Albert Ammons is in the company of the original boss of the blues shouters, Big Joe Turner, with whom he had worked frequently before, especially in the combination with Pete Johnson. Joe's voice is rich and Albert plays some slowed down boogie. 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Songs that capture in lyrics and in music the many traditions that we have at this joyous Season: the birth of the Christ child, the Christmas tree, the opening of gifts, sleigh rides, and holiday get-togethers with family and friends. On October 30, 1889 banjoist Will Lyle made history by recording 'Jingle Bells' - the very first Christmas record. Although no known copies of this recording survive, one of the earliest vocal examples of 'Jingle Bells' does survive on an Edison brown wax cylinder entitled, 'The Sleigh Ride Party'. It was made a decade after Lyle's recording, and remained in the Edison Catalog for a number of years. 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Finally, selections by Blind Lemon Jefferson and Big Bill Broonzy show the blues settling into a more recognizable form, while Pinetop Burks offers an early version of boogie-woogie. In time, acoustic guitars and pianos replaced fiddles and fifes, and many forgot that there were, indeed, other ways to play the blues. 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Highlights on the first disc include the opening track, the joyous 'Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn,' recorded in 1925 by comedian and female impersonator Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon; Harry Crafton's 'Bring That Cadillac Back' (a Cadillac might not be the best gift if your girlfriend likes to ramble) from 1947; Tampa Red's amazing, ringing slide guitar tone on 'Christmas and New Year's Blues' from 1936; and the bizarre, disturbing field recording of 'Junior's a Jap Girl's Christmas for His Santa Claus,' sung by Willie Blackwell for Alan Lomax in Arkansas in 1942. Other high points include the charming 'Christmas Boogie,' recorded in 1950 by piano prodigy (he was only ten years old when this recording was made) Frankie 'Sugar Chile' Robinson and the intense, bottled-up street-corner sermon 'The Wrong Way to Celebrate Xmas,' recorded by Rev. Edward Clayborn in 1928. 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These marvellous down-and-dirty original shockers, like Tampa Red's 'Witchin Hour Blues', St. Louis Bessie's 1927 gem 'Ghost Creepin Blues' and (of course) Screamin Jay Hawkins' 'I Put a Spell on You' and Muddy Waters' 'Got My Mojo Working' are all incredible, stripped-down howlers that might be expected to hear playing in R. Crumb or Anton LaVey's sitting rooms. Sippie Willis' 1925 track 'Devil Dance Blues' make the price of this disc worth it alone. An outstanding collection of Hoodoo and Voodoo inspired rarely heard songs from 1925 to 1961. Absolutely beautiful in its raw energy. Get a mason jar of Corn-Mash Moonshine Skull-Pop, slip this treasure into the CD player, and revel in the spirits - both real (from the jar) and those conjured up by these timeless recordings. Amazon Review: 'Black American music has long been associated with both Hoodoo, and in the Caribbean and parts of Louisiana, Voodoo. There are many references to the Hoodoo Man, or Hoodoo Lady, who would cast a spell for you, or supply you with a 'Conjure Bag', a 'Mojo Hand' or other charms to do the same. The 'Black Cat Bone', the 'John The Conqueror Root', or the Voodoo 'Gris Gris. Sometimes to give y0u power over money, or other powers, but almost always to give you control of the opposite sex. With this stuff, you could become The Hoochie Coochie Man! A treatise could be written about the cultural meanings of Hoodoo and Voodoo in Blues lyrics. Whichever term you use, Hoodoo or Voodoo, this CD is packed with a diverse selection of great performances from the stars, and journeymen of Blues, R \u0026amp; B and Jazz. 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'Blues, Blues Christmas Vol. 4' makes for a Merry Merry Christmas. I had the other 3 volumes of this series and this one just might be the best yet. Some real obscurities on here, from a wide range of American roots music traditions. A lot of great tunes played by energetic performers. Audio quality is darn good as well. Highly recommend' (Amazon Review). Once again Document dives dive deep into the well of Christmas music to gather some holiday gems from decades past. They continue to be progressively more ambitious in their selections, jumping between genres that include blues, gospel, jazz, rock, doo-wop and calypso recorded between the 1920's through the 1960's, many songs which have not been anthologized before. There are firm favourites like 'White Christmas' from The Drifters , to Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer - from Cadillacs. There is, arguably, the first Christmas Blues on record to exciting obscurities from the like of The Qualities (an early incarnation of the legendary Sun Ra) and The Heartbeats. Calypso looms large in the collection putting a Caribbean slant on the Season with, favourites and obscurities alike from names such as Lord Executor, Sam Manning with The Melodettes - Felix Crazy Cats and The Mighty Spoiler. Vintage Country and Old timey fiddlers are here too with seasonal selections to get those feet tapping as you swig the Egg-Nog. Of course, it wouldn't be Christmas without sublime gospel, and we have plenty of that too in the form of The Golden Gate Quartet, Middle Georgia Four and the swinging sounds of the wonderful Ward Sisters. No wonder these volumes are so popular with music lovers of all tastes. 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A winter festival is enshrined in almost all cultures that have a winter. It is no surprise that these festivals generally take place in December. Santa\/Father Christmas is one of the oldest figures in the celebrations. So much could be written about winter festivals and the development of Christmas that it would warrant a book. Here, we content ourselves with some of the recordings of songs that give us an aural hint at the traditions that we have carried with us from the dawn of time and that have spread around the world. Beginning with November's 'Stir Up Sunday', we have a humorous introductory sketch on stirring up the Christmas pudding mix with plenty of brandy, by the increasingly tipsy Gert and Daisy. 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This year's selection was accompanied by press and syndicated Christmas music articles from Document. As we revisit remaster, restore and finally reissue the whole canon of Blues and ethnic Christmas tracks, our research continues to be deeper and deeper, teasing out seasonal, musical obscurities and gems that had seemed lost to the public. This volume contains tracks that will surprise and delight with their reference to the coming of Christmas and then the New Year. Who would have thought that 'Hellhound on my Trail' the blues classic from the legendary Robert Johnson would have made the cut but it does? Listen hard to the words and you will know why it was an obvious choice. We can say for same for the Bessie Smith platter too. In amongst the Blues Legends, there are the legends of French Gypsy Jazz rubbing shoulders with (or should that be violins?) with the likes of Country Legend, Bill Monroe and the lesser-known Little Joe Isbel. From vintage country to the earliest voices in Soul, Motown and the modern Black Masters. You will find the voices of a young Marvin Gaye and Lou Rawls and the mighty pen of Curtis Mayfield in this collection. Doo-wop and Gospel jostle for a place between Jazz and Bebop. Add 24 pages of informative and often humorous booklet notes written by Blues Expert and aficionado, Jeff Harris, host of 'Big Road Blues', which airs on Sundays 5 to 7 PM (EST) on WGMC Jazz90, new info on some artists and add the detailed discographies, well, here you have a recipe for a Christmas treat that will be treasured and played for this and many Christmases to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDisc 1:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRhythm Kings - Christmas Is Coming At Last\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHuey 'Piano' Smith \u0026amp; His Clowns - All I Want For Christmas (Is A Little Bit Of Music)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEtienne 'Sarane' Ferret Et Le Quintette De Paris - White Christmas\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLightnin’ Hopkins - Heavy Snow \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys - Christmas Times A-Coming\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCalvin Bostick - Christmas Won't Be Christmas (With Out You)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMichel Warlop accompanied by Django Reinhardt - Christmas Swing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eJan Bradley - Christmas Time\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eJohn Greer - Wait Till After Christmas\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDipper's Quintet Van Perry’s Combo - It's Almost Christmas\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePearl Bailey - Five Pound Box Of Money\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRev. 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His most famous recording is a retelling of the Kassie Jones legend that stretches for more than six minutes and contains more cryptic witticisms, double entendres, and risqué jokes than a half-dozen country blues records put together. Lewis displayed his particular gift as an entertainer and tale-teller on nearly all his recordings. If none of his other works rival 'Kassie Jones' for sheer length, they sometimes surpass it in terms of pathos (as in the heartrending 'Falling Down Blues') or observational acuity (as in Furry's finely wrought retelling of the story of Billy Lyon and Stack-o-Lee). Furry Lewis 1927-29 collects the entirety of Lewis' prewar output. 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Although his lyrics were generally drawn from the floating bag of clichés that showed up in countless blues songs, his atmospheric recordings, made in 1931 for Paramount, gave James' songs the appearance of poignancy, and his sad, lonely vocal style made them all seem heartfelt. When he was rediscovered in the mid-'60s, his skills were still intact, and he made several solid recordings for Vanguard and other labels, but his reputation really rests on the 18 tracks from the 1930s presented here. 'Devil Got My Woman,' 'Cypress Grove Blues,' and 'Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues' are all one of a kind classics, as are 'I'm So Glad' (later covered by Cream) and 'Illinois Blues,' both of which contain kinetic acoustic guitar breaks that simply explode out of the verses. James was also a pretty interesting piano player, and his playing on 'If You Haven't Any Hay Get on Down the Road' sounds again like no other country blues pianist. These are beautiful and maverick performances, and essential, country blues listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDevil Got My Woman \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCypress Grove Blues \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCherry Ball Blues \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllinois Blues \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFour O'Clock Blues \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHard Luck Child \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHard Time Killin' Floor Blues \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eYola My Blues Away \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eJesus Is A Mighty Good Leader \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBe Ready When He Comes \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDrunken Spree \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eI'm So Glad \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSpecial Rider Blues \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow Long Buck? \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLittle Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat Am I To Do Blues \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e22-20 Blues \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIf You Haven't Any Hay, Get On Down The Road \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAdditional Details\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Document Records\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Blues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRun Time:\u003c\/strong\u003e 70 mins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12\/12\/06\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 714298500523\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"DOCUMENT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39555589898439,"sku":"DOCD-5005","price":12.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/4889\/products\/DOCD-5005_c7c39912-ecc4-4280-93fc-29f2855a1899.jpg?v=1706817088"},{"product_id":"frank-stokes-the-complete-victor-titles-with-alternate-takes-1928-1929-cd","title":"Frank Stokes - The Complete Victor Titles With Alternate Takes 1928-1929 (CD)","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith nearly forty songs issued on record, Frank Stokes was one of the most extensively recorded of the Memphis blues singers of the '20s; Stokes blends blues with songs from the medicine shows and from the ragtime days of his childhood. Not only was his repertoire one of the most interesting of its time, it was superbly sung, and backed, whether solo, in partnership with Dan Sane, or with Will Batts, by some of the most accomplished and appropriate blues and ragtime playing on record. When Victor's field recording unit came to Memphis early in 1928, among the black musicians waiting for it was Frank Stokes. Not only was his repertoire one of the most interesting of its time, it was superbly sung, and backed, whether solo, in partnership or with Will Batts, by some of the most accomplished and appropriate blues and ragtime playing on record. At this session, in February 1928, the emphasis was on blues, rather than the older songs that were also part of Stokes' repertoire; but when Victor returned in August, to record Stokes solo, he played I GOT MINE, one of a body of pre-blues songs about gambling, stealing and living high. 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His pleading vocals were always on the point disintegrating into a cry either of help or of joy. His guitar playing, which could either be used as a thumping rhythm or as a remarkable, strong and precise lead, were a direct line to the life of poverty that he lived and his experiences in the Brownsville, Tennessee where he was born and where he died. This is the first of two volumes covering Sleepy John Estes early and, arguably, his best recordings, which he made between 1929 and 1941 before he slipped into obscurity until being re-discovered during the great blues revival of the 1960s. These recordings show John as an innovator and like Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson (John Lee) and Big Bill Broonzy he was willing and able to move on with the times, bringing his music from the country and into the city (Chicago). Like Big Joe Williams, Sleepy John Estes was as comfortable playing with a band as he was playing solo. 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The opening tracks on Volue 2 'Last Chance Blues' and 'Fourth And Beale' has Gus with the guitar player Hosea Woods, and they called themselves 'The Beale Street Boys'. There are same very nice guitar riffs particularly on 'Fourth And Beale', (The personnel notes on the sleeve are incorrect for Hosea Woods is given as a banjo player! Gus said: 'Hosea Woods play the guitar and cornet... we was good ... sure was'...) Mistakes apart, Woods shows himself as a fine singer, recording with Gus until 1930, after which little is known about his life. It is thought he died during the 1930s. For me the most interesting and enjoyable tracks are the harmonica solos by Noah Lewis with 'Devil In The Woodpile', showing all of his skills and reminding me of the great Sonny Terry. There are four tracks of the 'Noah Lewis Jug Band' where Noah has Sleepy John Estes on guitar, Yank Rachel on mandolin and Ham Lewis on jug! (not so easy to blow as you may think!) - what a line up! 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As the sleeve makes clear the only one of the four about whose later life anything at all is known was King Solomon Hill and, ironically, for many years, it was doubted he even existed. Bo Weavil Jackson (otherwise known as Sam Butler) recorded thirteen tracks all here and all recorded in 1926. He was discovered in Alabama but may have come from the Carolinas. He was a powerful, almost tormented singer, with a high pitched almost howling voice, and accompanied himself with some aggressive powerful bottleneck guitar. He sang some superb blues, such as 'Poor Boy' but also spirituals and leaves you with the strong impression that his religion was not much of a comfort to him. Nothing is known of Bobby Grant who sang two songs in 1927 but recorded nothing else. He may have come from Georgia as he sings of 'Lonesome Atlanta Blues but we don't know. He has a full, slightly soft voice and plays fluent guitar but has none of the torment or anger of Bo Weavil. 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A Columbia session did take place on December 17, 1928 in New Orleans, with Bo Carter, Charlie McCoy and Walter Vincson, where two titles were cut as the Jackson Blue Boys. But before that session, the group ran into the Brunswick mobile unit and recorded as Charlie McCoy and Bo Chatman, as well as backing Mary Butler on four titles. After Good Old Turnip Greens the vocal chores were turned over to Mary Butler for four blues titles. Bungalow Blues was handled smoothly, although a bit stiffly, with its occasional II and VI chords lending it a vaudeville flavour. On Mary Blues the blues style in the vocal was harder and the guitarist (probably Vincson) begins the instrumental introduction with a few bluesy slurs. On Electric Chair Blues the mandolinist had the same difficulty as on Mary Blues, and Butler cut Mad Dog Blues to better effect with only Vincson on guitar (including some mandolin imitation on the breaks). Chatman and McCoy returned with Bo's standard Corrine Corrina a lilting vocal duet, but closer to Hillbilly blues than to the tracks just laid down by Mary Butler. Finally, Bo appeared to give in and sang East Jackson Blues, although he didn't seem quite comfortable with the style. At his first session using the name Bo Carter in Jackson, Mississippi on December 15, 1930, the guitarist had the benefit of two years of varying recording experiences. He neatly divided the songs into three categories. The two finger picked blues numbers were the standouts (I'm An Old Bumble Bee and Mean Feeling Blues); with the next two (I've Got The Whole World In My Hands - a version of the Sheiks' 'Sitting On Top Of The World' - and She's Your Cook) sounding like the Hillbilly approximations of the blues so often favoured by Bo and his brothers. The last two tracks on this date were hokum blues in deference to the popularity of Tampa Red, Georgia Tom, Big Bill and numerous others who rode the wave of the hokum fad into lengthy careers. 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Daddy Stovepipe's eight sides with wife Mississippi Sarah are among the best jug band breakdowns on record, encompassing themes from the Bible to the Depression in consistently magnificent style. In 'Burleskin' Blues' and the glorious 'The Spasm,' Sarah and Stovepipe are at their liveliest, funniest, and raunchiest, swapping insults and threats, Stovepipe rapping his rhymes against the pounding rhythm of his wife's jug, and Sarah wailing her blues to her husband's screaming harmonica. Bogus Blind Ben Covington ('Bogus' because he wasn't actually blind) was probably a pseudonym for Ben Curry, a banjo player and medicine show entertainer whose repertoire consisted of such comic pieces as 'I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop.' His performances are typically less captivating than those of Mississippi Sarah and Daddy Stovepipe but are at times very amusing and always valuable as provocative glimpses into the songster tradition. The two tracks by the Mobile Strugglers, recorded over ten years after the last pieces by either Covington or Stovepipe, conclude the collection with an unusually gritty string-band style. The duets by Mississippi Sarah and Daddy Stovepipe, along with the six minutes of the Mobile Strugglers, represent some of the most thrilling sounds to come out of the period, or out of the state, whose contributions to early blues and country music are generally overlooked. 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Recorded in Atlanta, Andrews plays a twelve-string guitar with his strumming technique, interspersed with short bass runs and simple vocal style marking him as an early blues practitioner. Virtually nothing is known of Kid Brown. 'Bo-Lita', a mid-tempo blues, with accompaniment probably by Troy C. Snapp on piano, was recorded for the short-lived Black Patti label in 1927. Though recorded in Atlanta and accompanying himself on the twelve-string guitar, much of Emery Glen's guitar style is reminiscent of some of the Memphis players. On 'Two Ways To Texas' the melodic riffs bring to mind, Furry Lewis. Two distinctively different sides by Sammy Brown make him a stylistic non-entity. On 'Barrel House Blues' his vocal performance is accompanied by an unknown guitarist and has much of the feeling of the more primitive country blues of the time, whereas 'The Jockey Blues', with probably Cripple Clarence Lofton on piano, is typical of urbanized blues. Brown seems more comfortable in the latter piece and lyrically it is a unique work. Lewis Black's recordings are some of the most primitive and intriguing early blues ever recorded. They have a pure African feel, combined with his troubled vocal delivery and poetic lyrics. With his smooth chordal guitar, horn-like kazoo and clear tenor voice, Johnnie Head may have come from a vaudeville \/ medicine show or even a jazz background and it is unfortunate that these two sides comprise his entire recorded output. A native of the Arkansas \/ Memphis area, Mooch Richardson was an accomplished musician. The variety in guitar parts and lyrical composition attest to this. The songs, with Lonnie Johnson's accompaniment, have much of the same feel as the latter's session with Texas Alexander but given Richardson's talent it is a mystery as to why OKeh deemed it necessary to pair him with Johnson. The two blues and two 'novelty' songs of T. C. Johnson and 'Blue Coat' Tom Nelson again represent a wide repertoire steeped in the medicine show tradition. The assorted T. C. 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With her distinctive and very appealing voice, she was one of the few blues moaners who could sing on the same artistic level as Bessie Smith, as a matter a fact many of Cox's recordings have more bite to them then Smith's. This Document CD has 24 of her first 32 recordings and, although one regrets that it is not a 'complete' series, the music is consistently enjoyable and timeless. In fact, quite a few of the lyrics (many of which were written by Cox) were later permanently 'borrowed' by Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams; the first stanza of 'Goin' to Chicago' was taken from 'Chicago Monkey Man Blues' and 'Bear-Mash Blues' has a couple of Williams' best lines. When one considers that the music on this CD is taken from 1923-24, it can certainly be considered ahead of its time! Most of the musicians backing Ida Cox are excellent, particularly pianist Lovie Austin and (on five numbers) cornetist Tommy Ladnier and clarinettist Jimmy O'Bryant. The recording quality (even with some surface noise) has been greatly cleaned up for this reissue and Cox's singing is very easy to understand. Although uncrowned, Ida Cox (who after retiring in 1945 came back for a final recording in 1961) Cox communicates to todays listeners just as well as she did in the 20's. One can clearly hear and understand every word she says; so bluesy and down to earth. If you like a blues singer who can sing jazz and swing, you will enjoy Ida Cox, and if you like Bessie Smith you will also appreciate Cox's work. 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In 1997 Document released 24 of her classic early recordings, and that CD still stands as the definitive monument to her artistry. Trained to perform in vaudeville while still a girl, then schooled in theatrical presentation by Ethel Waters, Ma Rainey, and King Oliver, she outgrew the vaudeville upbringing and perfected a straightforward blues delivery while making these records during the years 1925-1929. The majority of Bertha Chippie Hill's records were made for the General Phonograph Corporation and later for the Okeh Phonograph Corporation, issued on their Okeh label. Consequently, the company's A. and R. man in Chicago, Richard M. Jones, influenced the choice of material Chippie Hill was to record, the majority of the songs being written by him. Fortunately, he wrote some excellent blues and was a fine pianist too, being present on many of the tracks on this CD. Ten selections also feature the remarkable cornet playing of Louis Armstrong. Anyone seeking insights about blues, jazz, and human nature needs to savour Armstrong's interactions with Bertha 'Chippie' Hill. She is also backed by Richard M. Jones' Jazz Wizards (with clarinettist Artie Starks doing his best to complement her passionate delivery); guitarist Lonnie Johnson, who recorded during this period with artists as diverse as Duke Ellington, Texas Alexander, and Eddie Lang; guitarist Scrapper Blackwell and pianist Leroy Carr; pianist and songwriter Georgia Tom (Thomas A. Dorsey); and guitarist Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker) and bassist Bill Johnson of New Orleans. The gravitational pull of the blues is nicely counterweighted by 'Non-Skid Tread,' an amusing study in hokum for kazoo and continuo. Bertha 'Chippie' Hill had a nice comeback during the 1940s, during which she received international recognition. 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Here we have the first four recordings of the young Mahalia Jackson - just voice and piano, but still a compelling sound, though less so when organ takes over - for Decca in 1937. Then Lottie Peavy, with a band featuring Bunk Johnson and Turk Murphy, recorded in San Francisco. I prefer her powerful vibrato to Jackson's vocal, and the accompaniment is quite attractive, especially Johnson - the trumpet is uncharacteristically muted (but still very effective) on one track, but open and shouting on the second. Sister Copeland accompanies herself on guitar, these are pleasant sides. Rosetta Wynn is very interesting with potent preaching and subtle background moaning, interspersed with rough but very effective singing and excellent down-home guitar work, at least some of which is probably by Jesse Thomas. Elder Michaux's two-part 'I Am So Happy' is a classic and should be well known to many for its almost hysterically optimistic sound and frantic clapping; you can imagine that the singers would have had to have had the smiles surgically removed after this cut. Madame Ernestine is not Ernestine Washington, and in fact she sounds a little like Mahalia Jackson. Into the 50s, we have Prophet B.W. West, who recorded in Hollywood for Imperial. This is quite primitive, if gripping stuff, in which the prophet preaches in a low gruff, chanting voice, while his acolytes clap and bear witness noisily around him. Finally, Sister Goldia Haynes is as interesting for her accompaniment as for her own intrinsic qualities, as it comprises Joe Liggins on piano, Gene Phillips on guitar and Eddie Davis on string bass. The result, not surprisingly, swings very pleasantly, causing at one or two points the oxymoron 'after-hours gospel' to spring unbidden into the mind. 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On 4th August 1937 they cut no less than fourteen tracks at one mammoth session in Charlotte. The very first number was fore-taste of what was to become known as 'quartet' singing to the groups that came after them in the late forties and early fifties. Whoever wrote the text to' Jezebel' seems to have mixed up the story of Jezebel with that of Salome and John the Baptist, but there's no denying the hypnotic power of the refrain, 'You got to go to judgment and stand your trial, you got to go to judgment and stand your trial' leading up to 'Nine days she lay in Jerusalem's streets, her flesh was too filthy for the DOGS to eat.' Not for the faint of heart! Another well-presented track is 'Stalin Wasn't Stallin',' my first ever exposure to this group. Rosie the Riveter, got to finger some ration coupon books, and then heard this: 'Well, now, Stalin wasn't stallin' when he told the Beast of Berlin that they'd never rest contented till they had driven him from the land, so he called the Yanks and English, and proceeded to extinguish, the Fuehrer and his vermin, this is how it all began: Well, the Devil he was reading in the Good Book one day, how the Lord created Adam to walk the righteous way, and it made the Devil jealous, he got green up to his horns, and he swore by things unholy that he'd make one of his own! So he packed two suitcases full of grief and misery, then he caught the Midnight Special goin' down to Germany ...' All this in the Golden Gate Quartet's fast-paced Jubilee Gospel style. Electrifying! But bitter irony comes with the line 'Now Adolf got the notion that he was the master race, and he swore by all things evil he'd put mankind in its place ....' This at a time when the Golden Gate Quartet would have been refused service at half the hotels and restaurants in Virginia because of their race. 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She first heard and publicly performed blues songs in 1902 when she was sixteen. In the studio with her was the house pianist for both Paramount and the Monogram theatre, Lovie Austin. Lovie was well respected by many of the artists whom she accompanied. A competent musician, she often helped musicians like 'Ma' and Alberta Hunter by writing out their song scores for copyright. Volume One in Document Records' series of the Complete Works of Ma Rainey is a highly rewarding experience, especially for those who've never had a chance to savour her earliest recorded performances. With 'Her Blues Serenaders', Lovie introduced the first bars of 'Bad Luck Blues' a slow, mournful, solid blues which marked the beginning of five years of recordings by the earliest known professional blues artist to record. In this context it was fitting that Williams released two other titles from the session, 'Moonshine Blues' and 'Southern Blues', as her first record and gave her the title of 'Mother Of The Blues'. Rainey's wonderfully expressive voice is pitched noticeably higher than it is on her later recordings. Also to be heard is the marvellously expressive cornet playing of Tommy Ladnier, contemporaneous with that of Thomas Morris and a clear precedent for the style-setting techniques of Bubber Miley and Cootie Williams. In addition to Ladnier, the clarinettist on her first session was Jimmy O'Bryant, and the pianist was Lovie Austin. 'Lost Wandering Blues' and the magical 'Dream Blues' (which feels a bit like 19th century folk music) have banjo and guitar accompaniments by Miles and Milas Pruitt; the Pruitt Twins are also believed to have backed her on the gutsy 'Shave 'Em Dry Blues' and its flipside 'Farewell, Daddy Blues.' Tracks 13-20 find her again supported by Lovie Austin's Blues Serenaders, now expanded to a quartet by the addition of alto saxophonist Charles Harris. 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'See See Rider Blues,' 'Jelly Bean Blues,' and 'Countin' the Blues' are among the best known and most commonly reissued titles in Rainey's entire discography, largely due to the presence of a 24-year-old cornetist from New Orleans named Louis Armstrong. Other Hendersonians on these sides were clarinetists Don Redman and trombonist Big Charlie Green. The sound of Charlie Dixon tracing a simple ascending\/descending pattern on his banjo while Rainey sings the chorus of the 'Jelly Bean Blues' is one of the great magical moments in all of early 20th century music. Decades later, Louis Armstrong would compare this little record to an aria by Giuseppe Verdi. After a one-shot reunion with Lovie Austin, Tommy Ladnier, and Jimmy O'Bryant for the 'Cell Bound Blues,' Rainey recorded four titles (and two alternate takes) accompanied by a smaller group, billed as her Georgia Band, with an unidentified and rather shrill kazoo player who doubled on slide whistle; saxophonist George 'Hooks' Tilford, either Lil Henderson or Georgia Tom Dorsey at the piano, and a percussionist who was either Cedric Odom or Happy Bolton. The band that backed her on tracks 16-23 (recorded in July 1925) had similar personnel, with the addition of a cornetist whose name was either Robert Taylor or Kid Henderson. At this stage in her career, Rainey's voice was deepening in pitch. 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The first half of this disc (tracks 1-10) has her backed by her Georgia Band, in this case a septet led by Fletcher Henderson. In addition to cornetist Joe Smith and trombonist Big Charlie Green (both actively recording with Bessie Smith during this time period), the group included clarinettist Buster Bailey, and young Coleman Hawkins operating a bass saxophone. Hawkins also used the monster horn during recording sessions with the Henderson Orchestra until his bandmates begged him to put it away for keeps. The booming bass clef instrument greatly enhances the theatricality of Rainey's act, and young Hawk seems to have enjoyed himself on the fascinating 'Bessemer Bound Blues.' The purling of Hawkins in the basement of the horn is a heart-warming premonition of Anthony Braxton's use of extreme lower registers some 50 years later. Those who relish the growling of the bass sax are sure to appreciate the inclusion of alternate takes. Anyone who seeks to understand what Rainey was all about needs to experience her 'Oh My Babe Blues,' 'Wringing and Twisting Blues,' and the 'Stack O'Lee Blues,' which sounds a lot like 'Frankie and Johnny.' These are some of Rainey's most passionate and endearing records, greatly enhanced by the participation of young and aspiring jazz musicians. Tracks 11-14 feature an entirely different line-up consisting of cornetist Bernie Young, trombonist Albert Wynn, future Ellington clarinettist Barney Bigard playing alto and soprano saxophones, a banjoist by the onomatopoeic name of Rip Bassett, and pianist Lil Henderson. After two takes of the 'Mountain Jack Blues' with the great Jimmy Blythe at the piano, three titles are ground out by an ensemble that included a musical saw and drumming by Ben Thigpen, destined for great moments with Andy Kirk's Clouds of Joy during the 1930s. 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Mapping her recording activities from November 1926 to December 1927 with 22 single take titles, it opens with 'Morning Hour Blues,' a straightforward number rendered somewhat hypnotic by the combination of Jimmy Blythe's piano, Blind Blake's guitar, and the delicately handled xylophone of Jimmy Bertrand. Ma Rainey's accompanists on this disc also include cornetist B.T. Wingfield, trumpeter Shirley Clay, trombonists Kid Ory and Albert Wynn, clarinettists Johnny Dodds and Artie Starks, violinist Leroy Pickett, and pianist Claude Hopkins. Like every volume in the series, this is a potent storehouse of undiluted early blues, strongly anchored and embellished by jazz musicians from New Orleans, Chicago, and New York. 'Big Boy Blues' has a delightful solo by an unidentified tuba player who generates basslines similar to what Coleman Hawkins came up with using a bass saxophone in December of 1925 (see Vol. 3). Much of Rainey's repertoire consisted of songs that dramatized the heart-breaking ups and downs of interpersonal relationships. Near the beginning of 'Gone Daddy Blues' Rainey engages in a bit of theatrical patter with an unidentified man who reacts poorly when reminded that she is his wife. 'Wife?' he says, 'ain't that awful!' Rainey's music was always about real life as she saw it. She sang about battling depression, drinking to excess, and dodging bad prohibition liquor. On a regular basis, her road show background would manifest itself in burlesque entertainment like the famous 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,' a rare example of double entendre lyrics, to which she almost never resorted. The title refers to the Black Bottom, a popular dance rivalled only by the Charleston in its day. The original flipside was a boisterous version of Kerry Mills' 'Georgia Cake Walk,' with lots of spoken commentary throughout. Most Rainey performances, however, are slow paced diary entries packed with gut-level honesty. Some aspects of womanhood expressed by Ma Rainey are as timeless as can be. 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The bulk of the session was recorded at Wilton, Connecticut in February 1935, an area with a strong anti-slavery sentiment, Wilton also served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. There is a wide selection of songs and genres of music in Leadbelly's seemingly endless repertoire, which places him as much of a 'songster' as a bluesman. Ella Speed is a ballad about a New Orleans good-time girl. There are two versions of Frankie and Albert a ballad which would remain in Leadbelly's repertoire throughout his career. There are the religious songs Mary Don't You Weep and Way Over In The Promised Land, the prisoners song Midnight Special, which went on to be a hit for Lonnie Donegan. Highlights of blues numbers Leadbelly recorded in this session are Blind Lemon Blues which is a tribute to the fellow Texan blue musician Blind Lemon Jefferson, with whom he played on the streets of Dallas at the start of his career and Matchbox Blues a track that Blind Lemon recorded for both Paramount and Okeh Records in 1927 (found on Document Records DOCD-5018). A great many of these recordings were made in field settings on early, primitive portable disc-cutting equipment. This equipment along with various aluminium and acetate discs, though not of the highest quality in so far as sound is concerned, has served to preserve the many brilliant performances of Leadbelly. It is felt that Leadbelly never sounded as well anywhere else as he did when he was recording for the Library. 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It also continues the policy of introducing work by performers who feature only in the new fourth edition of the 'Blues And Gospel Records' discography. Among this group are the West Indian singer Sam Manning, and Sammie Lewis, both stated to be of 'no blues interest' in previous volumes of 'The Bible', and hence unlisted, but apparently reprieved in the new edition, which explains their inclusion on this collection. Sammie Lewis, who was probably a female impersonator, is accompanied by a forceful band, but had the annoying habit, as noted by liner note writer Steve Tracy, of adding the syllable 'ah' to the end of each line he sang, thus detracting from the overall presentation. The gap-filling 1923 coupling by Viola McCoy features the powerful piano accompaniment of Fletcher Henderson. Another rare coupling from 'Blind Richard' Yates presents some interesting lyrics. Clifford Hayes is another artist unlisted in previous editions of B\u0026amp;R who makes an appearance in the new one. Most of his work is already available on CD, and the seven tracks presented here are all alternate takes. Hayes plays violin, with Earl Hines on piano, and guitarist Cal Smith contributing some excellent solos. Two more alternate takes are those from the Dixie Jazzers, featuring Robert Cooksey and Bobby Leecan, the remainder of their recordings appearing on two previous Document CDs. The Q.R.S. Boys was the name of a group featuring the piano and flamboyant vocals of Walter 'Fats' Pichon, with the tenor saxophone of Robert Cloud, and Hawaiian guitar played by Benny Nawahi, who provides a fine solo on 'Wiggle Yo' Toes'. 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This unique service to humanity seems even greater when the recordings in question date back to before the 1920s. The Earliest Black String Bands, Vol. 1: 1914-1917 presents 18 precious sides rescued from oblivion and made available to the public with a detailed discography and informative liner notes. The connecting link between Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra of New York and the Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra of London was Jamaica-born pianist and bandleader Dan Kildare, a pioneer of syncopated dance music who worked with James Reese Europe and was among the very first black musicians to make phonograph recordings. The instrumentation used by the Persian Garden Orchestra in 1914 (cornet, clarinet, tuba, violin, piano, drums, banjo, and mandolin) lent itself to the one-step, the Brazilian maxixe, and the waltz. The unfortunately named Coon Orchestra employed by Ciro's Club had the comparative advantage of making records in 1916 and 1917, when rapidly evolving styles were paving the way for the post-war jazz explosion of the late '10s and early '20s. Stringed instruments predominate in this ensemble (the discography lists banjo, banjoline, cello, string bass, piano, and drums with occasional vocals and incidental whistling effects) and the material includes novelties, foxtrots, and Hawaiian routines with titles like 'Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula' and 'Oh, How She Could Wacki, Hacki, Wicki, Wacki, Woo.' 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The best of them are line examples of African-American string band music belonging to the same tradition as such later recording groups as the Dallas String Band (see Document DOCD-5162). The music is unambiguously African-American in its rhythmic and expressive characteristics, and the earliest substantial body of such music on record. The recorded material is for the most part popular hits of the day, including several cod-Hawaiian numbers. On many of the records, it sounds as though a conventional banjo is being used alongside an instrument hybrid between banjo and mandolin which is presumably a banjoline. Recordings survive to prove genuine African-American elements in the music, even though the band played for white Londoners rather than for black ghetto dwellers in the States. As it happened, the recordings were advertised simultaneously with the well-known London Columbia discs by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band and consequently the labels refer to Dan \u0026amp; Harvey's Jazz Band, and the tunes (including the 'Missouri Waltz' and the then very popular waltz tune 'Smiles') are identified as 'Jazz Music' - predating Englishman Leonard Feather's lobbying for a jazz waltz by decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCiro's Club Coon Orchestra - What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For? \/ Hawaiian Butterfly\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCiro's Club Coon Orchestra - Down Where The Swanee River Flows\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCiro's Club Coon Orchestra - The St. Louis Blues\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCiro's Club Coon Orchestra - The Chinese Blues\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDan \u0026amp; Harvey's Jazz Band - Missouri Waltz\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDan \u0026amp; Harvey's Jazz Band - Allah's Holiday\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDan \u0026amp; Harvey's Jazz Band - Sirens\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDan \u0026amp; Harvey's Jazz Band - If You Look In Her Eyes\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDan \u0026amp; Harvey's Jazz Band - Smiles\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDan \u0026amp; Harvey's Jazz Band - Till The Clouds Roll By\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDan \u0026amp; Harvey's Jazz Band - Hindustan\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Versatile Four - Circus Day In Dixie\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Versatile Four - Araby\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Versatile Four - Down Home Rag\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Versatile Four - Winter Nights\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAdditional Details\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Document Records\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Blues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRun Time:\u003c\/strong\u003e 70 mins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 01\/20\/07\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 714298562323\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"DOCUMENT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39555594682567,"sku":"DOCD-5623","price":12.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/4889\/products\/DOCD-5623_5a1585ee-26bb-489a-b817-dfc66e990288.jpg?v=1706817165"},{"product_id":"leadbelly-complete-recorded-works-volume-7-1947-1949-cd","title":"Leadbelly - Complete Recorded Works Volume 7: 1947-1949 (CD)","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1947 Leadbelly's musical activities had settled into a routine of club appearances, radio broadcasts and informal jam sessions among his associates in the urban folk circle. During the previous twelve years this group of people had made connections for Leadbelly that ranged from New York Cafe Society to the film industry in Hollywood and although he made a strong impression on everyone he met, the wider music industry perceived Leadbelly as too volatile for mass marketing and consumption. By May 1949 a highly anticipated tour of France was cut short when he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Leadbelly returned to the States to fulfil a handful of concerts. During these concerts he was showing obvious signs of this disease and within less than six months he was gone. Within months of his death, the Weavers' version of 'Irene' became one of the bestselling records of 1950. The following year Atlantic released a version of 'Irene' by Leadbelly but it barely dented the charts. This was now in the era of cold war, anti-communist witch hunts led by Joseph McCarthy in which the American folk scene came under scrutiny. It would take the rock 'n' roll revolution of the mid-fifties and the folk revival of the sixties before the general public became accustomed to this raw vernacular style of performance. With the exception of the 4 Library of Congress titles, the rest of the recordings on this CD are either live concert performances or radio broadcasts (which were occasionally before an audience). The songs presented here are a good cross section of Leadbelly's repertory, from his oldest Green Corn up through the folk standards John Henry and the cocaine peddler's Take A Whiff On Me, to songs like Whoa Black Buck and a cover version of the hillbilly hit Birmingham Jail. 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Often musicians were not called back to the studio because whatever the A\u0026amp;R person had in mind as a 'winner' was not quite what the record buying public had in theirs. However, these CDs have not been compiled from recordings that meet the 'no good then, no good now' criteria. On the contrary, it is remarkable just how consistently good they are. Volume two begins with John Byrd and 'possibly' Mae Glover masquerading as 'Rev George Jones And Congregation'. Following a verse of 'Honey In The Rock', Sister Jones leads the congregation in prayer with the words; 'Our Father who art in Heaven, the white man owed me ten dollars and I didn't get but seven. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. I took that or I wouldn't a got none. Amen'. Much of this volume is taken up by John Byrd and Washboard Walter Taylor, producing between them a good, contrasting selection of blues, rags, and hokum pieces. Byrd uses a twelve-string guitar with which he plays some fine blues, including the interesting tribute to Blind Lemon Jefferson, 'Wasn't It Sad About Lemon', and the cautionary tale, 'Insurance Man Blues'. I do not want to appear as if I am trying to force my way into an epic Calt\/Wardlow terminology assassination chapter on the validity of such ambiguous terms as 'country blues'. 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The boll weevil, an inconspicuous brown beetle that devastates cotton crops, first entered Texas in 1872 (after leaving Mexico's cotton fields in ruin), and reached Louisiana by the early 1900s, quickly spreading into Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, leaving physical and economic devastation in its wake. Southern blacks, many of whom made their hardscrabble living as cotton sharecroppers, developed a begrudging respect for the tenacious pest and its abilities to survive all attempts at its eradication, making the boll weevil somewhat of a metaphor for the social, political, and economic situation of the sharecroppers themselves. This collection of field recordings from Document Records includes seven versions of the boll weevil ballad (the most moving arguably being Vera Hall's stately a cappella rendering), but also includes other non-weevil tracks, several of which are also quite striking. All five of the selections here by Wilson Jones (guitar and vocals), Octave Amos (fiddle), and Charles Gobert (banjo) have a wonderfully ragged wildness, especially the epic murder ballad 'Batson,' which clocks in at over 11 minutes in length, split into two parts. A group recorded in 1934 and identified only as Seven Boys With Home-Made Instruments delivers two delightful junkyard masterpieces, '(Don't) The Moon Look Pretty' and a version of Leroy Carr's 'How Long Blues,' that prefigure Tom Waits' bang-the-fender approach to music arrangement by some 40 years. The variety on display here, from murder ballads to blues, Cajun two-steps, and jug bands to archival spoken word pieces, is impressive. 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An agreement was made and the first four tracks on this CD are the result of that meeting, although only the first two titles were issued. Three of the titles are 'woman trouble' songs, and the fourth Who`s That Chick is the celebration of a probable Beale Street beauty, and all her attributes, as she walks down the street. During the summer of 1950, Rufus travelled at least as far as Nashville, with Bobby Plater`s Orchestra, and recorded for the Nashville-based Bullet label. These titles used a bigger band with four horns and had reasonably sophisticated R \u0026amp; B arrangements by Plater. His next move was to Chess, which should have meant hits, but sadly none of his three issues made any real dent in the R \u0026amp; B Charts, although all were good sides. All were recorded at Sam Phillips' Sun Studios. The final two Chess titles and the two unissued use Rosco Gordon`s band and have that beautifully primitive, dirty sound Rosco generates with his percussive piano and the honking guttural baritone sax of Richard Sanders. Juanita shows off Rufus at his wonderful best. If there can be such a thing as a comedy blues, then this is it. And after that sobbing gem: 'No more pistols, no more knives, no more messin' around with wives. Man, I'm off that stuff.' Rufus' next issue was to be on the Sun label. Recorded in the same studio but this time guitar-dominated, when Sam Phillips got the idea to cut an answer record to Big Mama Thornton's huge 1953 R \u0026amp; B hit 'Hound Dog'. All of the Sun sides are far more downhome in style than any of his earlier records and feature Joe Hill Louis and Floyd Murphy playing powerful guitar. It was to be three years before Rufus would record again, this time for Meteor Records, the Memphis branch of the L.A-based RMP\/Modern record company. The session included both Evelyn Young, sax player from his very first record and Louis Steinberg, who was to go on to be part of Booker T and the MGs. 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'This is to be expected', Paul Oliver wrote, 'for the life of the barrelhouse pianist in the vast state of Texas is strongly influenced by the railroads which link the centers.' As Pickens confirms: 'I travelled by freight trains. I rode freight trains practically all over the country. I flag rides and so forth. I might go to Tombell an' I might stay there until things dull down. Then I hear of another camp where it's booming. These other piano players-Son Becky, Conish Burks, Black Boy Shine, Andy Boy, and all these men-they went out different routes-hardly ever paired up. Up and down the Santa Fe tracks in those days was known as the barrelhouse joints. These places was located in the area where the mill was in, and you played all night long in those days. They danced all night long. And the blues was all they wanted; they didn't want anything else.' The sessions that comprise this collection were organized by Paul Oliver for the Blues Research and Recording Project with the recording done by Mack McCormick and Chris Strachwitz. In the summer of 1960 Oliver went to the United States with the aid of a State Department grant and BBC field recorder with the idea, as he writes of 'putting on tape the conversation and music of blues artists in the country and the cities, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes.' As Oliver's journey progressed west he teamed up with Strachwitz and McCormick who had been roaming around Texas looking for blues singers. The recording of Buster Pickens was a result of this collaboration. Pickens lone album, for Heritage (HLP 1008), the self-titled Buster Pickens, was recorded over several sessions in 1960 and 1961 and released in 1962, and now appears on CD for the first time here. It was Oliver who wrote the liner notes and interviewed Pickens, some of which has been transcribed by Oliver in his groundbreaking Conversation With The Blues. 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Once again there are a good few re-recordings of earlier tunes, all are most acceptable. 1934 saw Fiddlin' John and his music rapidly being superseded; the public were back buying records but they wanted new sounds and styles. The western swing performances by Bob Wills, Milton Brown et al, or the close harmony singing of the Delmores, Blue Sky Boys were more to the punter's taste than Carson and his now rather archaic sound. In his review of the book 'Fiddlin' Georgia Crazy', Keith Briggs noted that there was little in Carson's music that related to the black tradition. After listening to seven volumes of his music I would agree; however, on volume seven there is one song that was later recorded by both Big Joe Williams and Muddy Waters; 'She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain'. 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Harrell's style reminds me of English traditional singers - Walter Pardon, from rural Norfolk springs to mind, with his serious, almost matter of fact delivery. The accompaniments are varied - at first the record companies didn't seem to know quite what to do with him (he played no instrument himself), and so wheeled in studio musicians to fill out the sound - the fiddle player, or players, on some of these records sound particularly inappropriate. People as varied as Carson Robison and Roy Smeck were used at one time or another. There are railroad sound effects on some tracks, and even a cuckoo whistle on 'The Cuckoo She's A Fine Bird'. At other sessions he was accompanied by Henry Whitter on harmonica and guitar, and this seems to suit him better. Best of all, though, is the session with Posey Rorer (Charlie Poole's fiddle player), R.D. Hundley on banjo and Alfred Steagall on guitar. But the point is that whatever the backing, Kelly Harrell remains steadfast to the job in hand, telling his stories of roving blades, broken hearts and rash promises. 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