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Mississippi String Bands & Associates 1928 - 1931 Alec Johnson with contrinbutions by; Alec Johnson, vocal; Bo Carter, violin, guitar, vocal; Charlie McCoy, mandolin, banjo; Joe McCoy, guitar, Walter Vincson, vocal guitar; Sam Hill, vocal, guitar; and others... Genre: Mississippi Country Blues. This CD contains some of the recorded fruits of the relationship between the McCoy and the Chatmon families of Mississippi, beginning with the one session made by Alec Johnson, who was backed by Bo Carter on violin, and the McCoy brothers; guitar (Joe) and mandolin (Charlie), with possibly an under recorded piano. Johnson was evidently, judging by both his voice and repertoire, an older singer than his accompanists, and probably a veteran of the medicine shows. Continued... More Info on our New Store >> |
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Blind Willie McTell & Curley Weaver 1949 - 1950 Blind Willie McTell, vocal, twelve-string guitar.
Curley Weaver, vocal, guitar.
Solo Performances and Duets.
Genres: Country Blues, Religious, Country Blues Guitar, Bottleneck-Slide Guitar, Atlanta, Georgia blues.
Informative booklet notes by David Evans.
Detailed discography.
This disc presents the Curley Weaver session(s) for Sittin' in With of late 1949 or early 1950 and the McTell-Weaver session for Regal in 1950. Their voices are a bit worn from over two decades of daily performing and travel under not always the best of conditions, but their talents are otherwise undiminished. Like Billie Holiday's singing in her final years, the effect is still quite moving. More Info on our New Store >> |
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Clifford Gibson 1929 - 1931 Clifford Gibson, vocal, guitar With contributions by Roosevelt Sykes, piano. R.T. Hanen (probably J.D. Short), vocal. Jimmie Rodgers, vocal, guitar. Genres: St. Louis Country Blues, Country Blues Guitar; Old-Timey. Cllifford Gibson's oeuvre had been committed to wax by 1929, his first year of recording, with eight sides for QRS around June and another twelve sides for Victor in November and December of that year. Called back in 1931 to his hometown of Louisville mainly as an accompanist to Roosevelt Sykes and R. T. Hanen (probably J. D. Short) and, surprisingly, on one take as an accompanist to the white hillbilly Singer Jimmie Rodgers and that was it - almost. Continued... More Info on our New Store >> |
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J.T. 'Funny Paper' Smith (The Howling Wolf) - Complete Issued Titles (1930-1931) J.T. "Funny Paper" Smith (The Holing Wolf) vocal, guitar.
With contributions by: Magnolia Harris, vocal duet; accompanied Howling Smith (J.T. Smith), guitar.
Dessa Foster, Howling Smith, vocal duet; accompanied Howling Smith (J.T. Smith), guitar.
Genres: Texas Country Blues, Country Blues Guitar.
Informative booklet notes by Teddy Doering.
Detailed discography.
There are quite a few blues singers/guitarists from Texas who made records in the late 1920s and in the 1930s. What is it that makes "Funny Paper" Smith rank among the outstanding blues artists of his time? In my opinion, it is not so much his singing, nor his guitar playing. His guitar was often out of tune, and most of the time he accompanied his singing with simple chords. The one thing, however, that was his trademark and in which he was superior to most other blues singers, were his lyrics. We must consider him one of the great "blues poets" (men like Lightnin' Hopkins or Sonny Boy Williamson II [Rice Miller] also come to mind). Most of Smith's songs consist of absolutely original lyrics that had never been recorded by any other blues singer. Smith was so full of ideas that he had to pack his verse in the two sides of a record. He just couldn't confine himself to the three-minute-limitation of a 78 record. Continued... More Info on our New Store >> |
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Walter Vincson 1928 - 1941 This collection reissues all of Walter Vinson's pre-war recordings, including several of his accompaniment performances for Leroy Carter ("Black Widow Spider") and Mary Butler ("Mad Dog Blues"), as well as sidemen roles for the Chatmon brothers from the Mississippi Sheiks and Charlie McCoy. Also included are career highlights "Overtime Blues" and "Losin' Blues".
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Charlie McCoy Complete Recorded Titles 1928-1932. Charley McCoy (also as "Papa" Charlie McCoy), vocal, guitar, mandolin. Genre: Mississippi Country Blues.
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Charlie & Joe McCoy Vol 1 1934 - 1936
Charlie McCoy, vocal, mandolin; Joe McCoy, vocal, guitar.
Includes: Robert Lee McCoy, harmonica; Ransom Knowling, double bass; Harmon Ray (Peetie Wheatstraw's Buddie), vocal; Little Brother Montgomery, piano; and others.
Informative booklet notes by Teddy Doering.
Hallelujah Joe Ain't Preachin No More and one might add: He's swinging now ! - this could be the motto of this CD. Following the trend of the time both Charlie and Joe McCoy played from the early 1930 onwards in the swing-oriented vein of the Bluebird beat. Gone were the days of the Jackson blues style with its subtleties in the guitar playing or the delicate singing. The new style, however, had its advantages, too. Continued...
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Charlie & Joe McCoy Vol 2 1936 - 1944 Charlie McCoy, vocal, mandolin; Joe McCoy, vocal, guitar. Includes: Robert Lee McCoy, harmonica; Ransom Knowling, double bass; Harmon Ray (Peetie Wheatstraw's Buddie), vocal; Little Brother Montgomery, piano; and others. Informative booklet notes by Teddy Doering. Hallelujah Joe Aint Preachin No More and one might add: he's swinging now - this could be the motto of this CD. Following the trend of the time both Charlie and Joe McCoy played from the early 1930 onwards in the swing-oriented vein of the Bluebird beat Gone were the days of the Jackson blues style with its subtleties in the guitar playing or the delicate singing. The new style, however, had its advantages, too. Continued... More Info on our New Store >> |
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Georgia Tom Vol 1 1928 - 1930 More Info on our New Store >> |
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Georgia Tom Vol 2 1930 - 1934 Document BDCD-6022 Georgia Tom (Thomas A Dorsey) Volume 2; 5th February, 1930 to 22nd March 1934.
Georgia Tom Dorsey: vocal, piano, speech.
With appearances by: Scrapper Blackwell, guitar; Big Bill Broonzy, Tampa Red, bottleneck-slide guitar; and others.
Genre; Blues piano and vocal. Gospel with vocal group and piano. Plus Thomas A. Dorsey speaking.
Informative booklet notes by Howard Rye.
Detailed discography.
In February 1930, Georgia Tom turned in another set of melancholy blues and hokum. Second Hand Love returns to the theme of Pig Meat Blues in disparaging older women, though in fairness Levee Bound Blues implies that forty-year old men are practically past it too. Second-Hand Woman Bluesis by contrast a straightforward warning against adultery. For the American Record Company two months later, Tom was given Big Bill Broonzy as accompanist. Broonzy appears on several 1930 recordings, his delicate filigree work particularly notable on Don’t Leave Me Blues and Been Mistreated Blues. The hyperbole of Six-Shooter Blues has a surreal quality: “If your woman mistreats you, shoot her, and grab a train and ride”. Continued... More Info on our New Store >> |
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Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom 1930 - 1934 Kansas City Kitty was a name used by a woman or women who made records with Georgia Tom Dorsey during the early ’30s. About 60 years later, Document released a collection of 16 Vocalions recorded in March 1931 and four sides cut for Bluebird in November 1934, on which someone operated a kazoo so skillfully that it sounded at times like a cornet. This stash does not include “Do It Some More” or “Knife Man Blues,” which were the last Vocalions released under the name of Kansas City Kitty (see DOCD-5150 'Too Late Too Late Blues 1926 - 1944'). During the 1990s the producers at Document often transferred scratchy 78s directly to compact disc with no noise reduction whatsoever. Some of the tracks on this collection carry enough surface noise to replicate the historic 78-rpm playback experience. As for the music, this is typical of Georgia Tom Dorsey’s blues output, which coexisted with the works of his “other self,” the legendary gospel composer and performer Thomas A. Dorsey. Continued... More Info on our New Store >> |
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Lonnie Johnson Vol 1 1937 - 1940 More Info on our New Store >> |
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