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which I will print here in its entirety, unless the moderators find it excessive. And if you like, it is not too late to order; I will briefly offer the whole project - two books and thirty cds - to all Organissimo members for $150 shipped USA, a discount from the usual $175 shipped USA: Allen Lowe. “ Turn Me Loose White Man” Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, vols. 1 & 2. Hamden, CT: Constant Sorrow Press, 2020/ 2021. x þ 352 pages, 397 pages, 30 CDs. by Eric Lott If you too have been waiting for a magisterial study of popular music animated by traditional racism and religiosity, victims of irony, dynamics of resistance, Christian warfare, God’s militia, the Confederacy in absentia, crimes of sentiment, country folk’s synchronized swim, praying for good sex, proletarian orchestras (in church), worldly cluelessness, the rhythm method (“a more subtle kind of resistance”), plant-based courtship (I’ll poke it through the window), love and booty, white moments of feeling, Death Be Not Barefoot, out of the mouths of white people, victims of style, and the Hawaiian version of the Baja marimba band, the wait is over. Allen Lowe’s “ Turn Me Loose White Man” Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960 is here. The foregoing names only the first half of its table of contents more or less (vol. 1), but volume 2 follows suit (e.g., the minstrel wound, hillbillies with 401k’s, gospel in drag), and the writing lives up to its billing in punch and pith. All of it with a lucid and irrecusable rendering of the politics of cultural appropriation, but don’t expect a scolding, despite its how-to subtitle. Right on time with the arrival of The Harry Smith B-Sides (Dust-to-Digital’s new collection of the flip-sides of Smith’s famous 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music’s 78s), Lowe’s two prodigal volumes and their accompanying 30 CDs (each with 25-30 songs, 798 in all) far outpace the Smith compilations, which featured 84 A-sides and now 81 B-sides (three cut for racist lyrics) for a total of 165—not that it’s a contest, particularly since the projects do not conceptually overlap. Where Smith sought to conjure an occult Other America, Lowe means to trace various points of genre and stylistic inception, elaboration, and transformation, with an eye especially to the ways commercial song walked the color line. Greil Marcus in Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes (renamed The Old, Weird America) (1997) famously argued that Smith in his Anthology created a “Smithville” in which racial boundaries sometimes became so blurred as to disappear. While often blurry in Lowe’s volumes, racial lines quite rightly haunt everything, lyrically, musically, and above all politically. The two volumes are appropriately titled. Lowe captures as well as anyone I’ve read the Jim Crow strictures and cruelties often audible in musical cultures that nonetheless are always all up in one another’s Journal of Popular Music Studies, Volume 35, Number 1, pp. 139–144, Electronic ISSN: 1533-1598 © 2023 by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Branch (IASPM-US). All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Reprints and Permissions web page, https://www.ucpress.edu/journals/reprints-permissions. DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.139 business, mostly to surprising effect. As I say, Lowe doesn’t finger-wag or preach over all this but rather explores, notes ironies, lays out contradictions, and not infrequently waxes mordantly funny at the results. And he is way beyond understanding Black music as the sum of its miseries. For Lowe, apartheid America structures but doesn’t a priori define the nation’s musical outcomes. Before digging in, it’s worth noting just what is in front of you when you encounter this stunning archival effort. Lowe’s ear-boggling retrievals of U.S. vernacular musicking going back to the late nineteenth century are all selected from his personal collection as exemplary pieces for his purposes. Since much of it on the early end is of poor sound quality, he did capable sound restoration on it. Mastering and digitizing multiple CD sets for distribution was no doubt an operation in its own right. Lowe did due diligence as discographer, tracking down personnel, recording dates, locations, and cultural coordinates for as many of the recordings as possible. And it was a one-man job: literary historians such as big-data “distant reading” Franco Moretti employ whole teams of researchers to do analogous projects. The books themselves, handsomely self-published, proceed essentially song by song through all 30 CDs from just before 1900 to around 1960, annotations that continually rise to the level of musicological and cultural analysis of a high and readable order; local insights connect to multiple arcs of development and sudden left-turn innovation in what feels like real time (as well as they are written, the books require readerly patience). It’s not unlike spending roughly 2,025 minutes or 34 hours—five whole business days with lunch breaks, more or less—listening along with an excited, loquacious, acute, and inexhaustibly knowledgeable host tracking and tracing certain evolutions in pop music over the first six decades of the twentieth century. No wonder Lowe writes in a preface that “this is really the last such project I will do, at least without a grant or a substantial cash advance (meaning that, yes, this is really the last such project I will do)” (I, 2). I’ll believe that when I (don’t) see it. Because that “last,” for those unfamiliar with Lowe’s work, alludes to a number of fine previous books (with accompanying CDs) including Really the Blues?: A Horizontal Chronicle of the Vertical Blues 1893-1959, That Devilin’ Tune: A Jazz History 1900-1950, American Pop—From Minstrel to Mojo: On Record 1893-1956, and God Didn’t Like It: Electric Hillbillies, Singing Preachers, and the Beginning of Rock and Roll 1950-1970, which over the years have garnered praise from Francis Davis, John Szwed, David Hajdu, Jonathan Lethem, Jody Rosen, Peter Stampfel, Robin Kelley, Greg Tate, and Greil Marcus, among others, the last two of whom provided tandem introductions to the books under review. And for those who don’t know, Lowe is an excellent and esteemed avant-garde saxophonist who has played and recorded with Julius Hemphill, Marc Ribot, David Murray, Roswell Rudd, Matthew Shipp, Gary Bartz, Don Byron, and many more, with more than twenty albums as leader to his credit. This high-end performance background, coupled with his scholarship, is certainly one context for the ear-driven distinctions Lowe makes throughout “ Turn Me Loose White Man”—his ear is trained, and he listens carefully. Indeed, thinking with his ears from pop to blues to country to jazz (and also, along the way, pre-jazz, precountry, minstrel, ragtime, folk, rhythm & blues, gospel, show music, and rock ‘n’ roll), Lowe, to note one instance among dozens, can suggest almost in passing that while Fred Van Eps’s “Florida Rag” (1912) is technically able, it is no match in spry facility for Vess Ossman’s “Chicken Chowder” (1906), and if you too can casually do that, more power to you (I, 41). And where Harry Smith and later commentators such as Marcus pursue a vaguely mystified, sometimes class- and race-blind vision of an esoteric America (and in this regard see also Rani Singh’s appallingly white- and male-centric documentary The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music [2007]), Lowe in example after example hears otherwise: “the history of American music, to my ears, is essentially a timeline of African Americans liberating themselves in sound, creating an alternative history to that which has been imposed on them” (I, 9). Lowe’s governing emphasis on cultural appropriation has political currency, of course, but it’s to his great credit that he renders the matter with a confounding intricacy worthy of his materials. All down the line Lowe is level-headed and lucid—if at times blunt and candid—about the gnarled contradictions and paradoxes he finds. Operating with the now relatively uncontroversial notion that “a great deal, if not all, of American music is rooted in forms that derive in some way from Minstrelsy” (I, 15), Lowe consistently delivers the nuances of a given situation. In a history far messier than the mechanical theft of Black sounds and images for white sport and profit, U.S. musicking was through the decades an arena of exchange, larceny, fantasy, and desire structured in racial dominance in which each party (each of them multiple!) exerted its influence and lived through the changes, across many genres in many locations, fueled by widespread commercial distribution, whatever the format (street, stage, wax cylinder, shellac 78, radio, jukebox, vinyl 33 1/3). The upshot of all this, Lowe correctly notes, is that the broad diffusion of minstrelsy and post-minstrel cultural forms, Black as well as white, “created a mass movement of sound and motion that had shattering effect [sic] on all of not just American music but, categorically, American culture” (I, 15–16). Minstrelsy as the collective engine of cultural revolution—say what? That is, for better and worse, one of the main outlines of the story Lowe has to tell and attempts to track. Lowe’s song-by-song presentation of his musical examples tends to bury ledes (everywhere), but they nonetheless grab you. Here is one: Some of the strangeness of early jazz surely, I would say, has to do with the slow and gradual removal of the minstrel mask from both white and black performers. What lies beneath is still often an expression of perplexed, racial ambivalence, a sense that fantasy has replaced reality for so long that we no longer can determine precisely which is which. So black performers, as a habit (and not necessarily as a bad habit but as a professional habit), in the process of throwing off real and perceived professional chains, often remain in debt to a complicated and conflicted history of both professional and social enslavement, juxtaposed with a paradoxical form of liberation that is still part enslavement. (I, 51) “What lies beneath” the mask is less roots than once and future ambivalence and crossracial debt, liberation in chains, points of resistance and moments of supersession. As Stuart Hall once put it, this is the dialectic of cultural struggle.1 1. Stuart Hall, “Notes on Deconstructing ‘the Popular,’” in People’s History and Socialist Theory, ed. Raphael Samuel (New York: Routledge, 2016) [1981], 227–39. Lott | Book Review: “Turn Me Loose White Man” Where once it was commonplace to assume a clear distinction between debased culture industries such as minstrelsy and authentic folk and roots cultures both white and Black, it is now widely regarded a mixed-up, commercially saturated situation all the way down. As the blues arose in part out of traveling Black minstrel shows, so early country music often sported blackface on the National Life and Accident Insurance Company’s Grand Ole Opry stage. In this sense, Lowe contends, minstrelsy wasn’t dead but rather embedded everywhere, from the early-country minstrel religiosity of Ernest Thompson’s “Climb Up Them Golden Stairs” (1924) to Louis Armstrong’s hip yet flamboyant wresting of, signifying on, and thereby controlling the minstrel template to his advantage (I, 70). This at a time when Black sounds were unremittingly (and not unwittingly) infiltrating white musical modalities, with minstrelsy the vehicle, producing what Lowe calls the “deep and ugly contradiction” of a dominant culture attending to and inspired by a culture it continued to exploit (I, 72). Was white country music a communal gathering of the like-minded whose basic response to Jim Crow was to continue to do what came naturally, pursuing a method of liberation that didn’t appear to threaten anything? Or did it willfully submit itself to Black ideas and performance innovations in ways that radiated shocks through the system, however subtle? Yes to both, or Love and Thrift, as Lowe styles it in response to my notion of Love and Theft (II, 51).2 Lowe is fascinating on the fretboard intersections of country and blues in the banjo playing of (Black) Jimmy Strothers (1936) and the guitar of (white) Utah Smith (1944), who by turns (of phrase, even) fuse Black and white musical gestures while looking forward to both rock ‘n’ roll and bluegrass (II, 54–55). He does not shrink from proposing Al Jolson as a central figure influencing the development of American singing—check his analysis of the Jolson-y Black group The Bubbling Over Five (1929) (I, 227–28)—but is not unaware that Jolson occupied an altogether different sphere of influence than Charley Patton or Son House. Attuned to the complexities of minstrelsy, as well as segregated sound (in Karl Hagstrom Miller’s sally), privileging neither racial crosstalk nor apparently endogamous local knowledge, Lowe follows the music.3 He is as fresh on Armstrong’s singular innovations as he is precise on the ways Bing Crosby made cunning use of them (I, 137–8, 250). So it goes, in performers fleeting or enduring, local genre permutations and lasting subgenres such as honkytonk. Part of the irreducible pleasure of these volumes, impossible to convey in a review, is in seeing the year-to-year developments occasionally rise to the level of the transmundane (Elder Johnson’s amazing “God Didn’t Like It” [1948]) or explode by way of supernovas (Thelonious Monk at around the same time). Lowe proceeds with performer-by-performer discipline but is chatty and capacious enough in his purview to maintain a roomy feel (albeit with zingers aplenty). This produces a rather novel and indeed salutary music-history temporality in which stars and standouts live in the loam of everyday musicking that buttressed and sustained them. Lowe doesn’t mystify the nearly 2. Eric Lott, Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). 3. Karl Hagstrom Miller, Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010). anonymous nor let genius take up too much space. It does annoy him that certain writers have tried to take Robert Johnson down a notch by restoring him to the milieu he came from, but then he doesn’t think much of Chuck Berry, a mostly amusing idiosyncrasy (I, 185). The point for Lowe, even when he’s just showing rather than arguing the case, is understanding better the contours of exchange and admixture by looking incrementally at the musical road everybody shared. Also hearing better how self-conscious the exchanges and historical attention often were. Lowe is great on Bob Wills and “country’s search for itself” in the 30s and 40s, built out of old-time fiddle playing, early jazz, Tin Pan Alley, and the Swing Era, hoedown show blues shot through with white jive (ahh-ha!); and he’s good again on Little Walter’s adaptation of old-style country blues to swing-era rules, planting his electrified harp between jazz time and blues accent, all of it audible in “I Just Keep Lovin’ Her” (1947) (II, 181, 189, 105). Lowe excels in isolating the almost scholarly riff allusions of Jelly Roll Morton, his way with Tiger Rag in 1938: “Like an old-days Jaki Byard he has a way of evoking a distant musical past through the surface of a porous musical present. Every note and turn of phrase is like a sideways-glance at some different and distant musical day, shaded by a very personal, present-tense, intellectually and aesthetically active cultural worldview” (II, 116). Ernest Tubb’s “Walking the Floor Over You” (1942), says Lowe, showcases country music’s equally self-conscious interest in conveying “graven images that come at us in three-minute sequences,” less “simple snapshots” than “sonic life studies” (II, 156). Lowe’s way with the issue of appropriation, in other words, opens onto musicking in and as everyday life, which the paratactic side-by-side procedure of these volumes strangely echoes, one after another life-giving medium channeling a broad array of elements: Hank Williams, Memphis Minnie, Faron Young, and Elizabeth Cotten; Little Richard, Little Jimmy Scott, and Lefty Frizzell; The Orioles and The Blue Ridge Quartet; Billy Love and Doris Day; Wanda Jackson, Link Wray, and John Coltrane. One of several compelling statements regarding this connection comes in Lowe’s remarks on what he terms an aesthetic of the homemade, or the homemade as an aesthetic, visible in artists such as Cow Cow Davenport but rising to new heights in Thelonious Monk. Monk, Lowe writes, comes not just from the blues but from that strange twilit zone where minstrelsy, the blues, dance, and old-time pop merged; not just from stride and barrelhouse but the whole house party tradition, where volume and rhythm were as important, if not more so, as melody and tone. Hence “a particular African American stylistic continuum” in which the music is not just self-taught (Black musicians often denied institutional training and traditional forms of employment) but home-made. “Sound in this musical environment was a matter of adapting to so many different kinds of repertoire—think Jug Bands, early plantation bands like Muddy Waters,’ the way in which even players like Charley Patton and Tommy Johnson played pop tunes—that everything was a music in the moment, and it led even musicians who had more of a ‘classical’ approach into some odd stylistic corners.” Imagine Monk touring with an evangelist, which he did: every jazz musician has played for occasions and affairs that demand they dredge up odd pieces of hokum. Monk and Sonny Rollins both, Lowe observes, tended to play out-of-the-way pop tunes, while before them James P. Johnson absorbed the sound Lott | Book Review: “Turn Me Loose White Man” and feel of the country dance and ring shout (which leads us back to Monk) (I, 327). Surely there are white, working-class and/or anti-“classical” versions of this “music in the moment” bricolage as well, and the notion offers up a welcome sense of how a lone performer might embody inventories of musicking that carry Lowe’s volumes across sixty or more years. All the way out to 1962, say, which finds a young Robert Zimmerman singing Richard Rabbit Brown’s 1927 “James Alley Blues,” more medicine/minstrel show than blues, Lowe notes, “stagey and warm,” a departure from what would become Delta style. Probably learning it from Harry Smith’s Anthology, Bob Dylan refuses white-boy mimicry, evoking the old school without self-parody. “Brows[ing] his way through the American vernacular,” like Lowe himself, Dylan at the end of these two volumes stands in for a way of working by absorption that it is Lowe’s determination to capture in most of his subjects throughout “ Turn Me Loose White Man” (II, 388). So even (or especially) if you’re not one of Those People—the R. Crumb obsessive 78 collector in rumpled corduroys and Coke-bottle specs indelibly captured in Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World and Amanda Petrusich’s Do Not Sell at Any Price —or even if you are—Lowe makes an excellent Virgil. With great wit and energy, armed with a satchel of opinions, Lowe is never not alive to either the vagaries of cultural exchange or the social determinants that shape them. He helps you hear America better.

As for "why Trad Jazz", I think the above thread from 2013 has most answers. I cannot find much to add (and will leave it to English forumists anyway - they will know better). Except that I was about to mention the "Restless Generation" book by Pete Frame for a background description of the evolution of the scene through the 50s but then saw I already had mentioned it in the earlier thread you linked (10 years already - how time flies ...). And as for the question "Why Trad Jazz when they could have had Rock'n'Roll as their teenage music?", it should be remembered that traditional jazz had found its audience quite a while before R'n'R really made an impact in Europe. We tend to think of 1954 as the start of R'n'R but in Europe it rather was 1956/57. Regarding records to recommend, this is a bit hard for me. Revival Jazz (US or European) is a niche part of my jazz interest and not at the core of my jazz preferences. I tend to pick up originals when I come across them at prices where you can just give them a try. I never cared much for the 60s "Stranger On the Shore", "Petite Fleur" or "Midnight in Moscow" kind of Trad Jazz(-cum-Pop?) chart hits but prefer the somewhat earlier European traditional jazz recordings, and some of my interest may come from an attempt to explore this as part of jazz history. I remember several years ago I bought an armload of Trad 45s (mostly Chris Barber, plus some Kenny Ball and Cy Laurie a.o.) at a clearout sale of our #1 local record shop but soon after this had me wondering "What was I thinking?" Though the price was almost impossible to resist and some records are quite good (for what they were intended) and showed the artists had paid their dues (e.g. EPs of "Chris Barber Plays the Music of Clarence and Spencer Williams"). When you go for LPs and unless you focus on reissue compilations, look at the 10-inch LP bins. As you have seen for yourself, revival jazz was a 45 singles and EP medium at the time (like music geared at the teenagers usually was in the 50s) and what LPs there were often were 10-inchers (even after 12-inch LPs had become the norm in jazz). Some LPs I find stand out from the crowd or provide a good sampling of the period productions (among those I am aware of which may be far from comprehensive): - "New Orleans Joys" - Chris Barber's Jazz Band & Skiffle Group (Decca) - "Jazz At The Royal Festival Hall" - Humphrey Lyttelton (Parlophone) - "Jazz Session with Humph" - Humphrey Lyttelton (Parlophone) - "Jazz aus der Eierschale" - Spree City Stompers (Germany) featuring Wild Bill Davison (something of a "seminal" 50s revival jazz record on the German scene) - "Fatty George spielt Dixieland" (Telefunken) (an Austrian who straddled the fence of trad and modern with his band that was at home in both idioms) - "Dixieland Ball" (Brunswick) - a 1956 V.A. LP with some of the major revival bands from Germany and Switzerland - "Dixieland!" - The Two Beat Stompers (Brunswick) - another of the major German traditional jazz bands (feat. Emil Mangelsdorff in the lineup), rec. 1954 to 57 An intriguing item: - "Barber At The London Palladium" (Columbia, Philips, MFP - depending on what pressing you stumble upon) - Chris Barber at a Poll Winners' concert of 1961, featuring Joe Harriott who sat in on some numbers ... And then there was Sidney Bechet. His European recordings - as well as those of his French acolytes (with or without him as the featured soloist) - are a history to itself, enough for a separate post. As are major revival jazz acts from other European countries. The Dutch Swing College Band (DSCB), for example, had numerous LPs out, and you cannot really fault them for their musicianship. They were more than a notch above the typical home-made dixieland-skiffle combos. And if you'd like to sample how revival jazz was popularized elsewhere in Europe while the UK had "Trad" (and are not taking this too seriously 😁), check out Papa Bue's Viking Jazz Band from Denmark when he jazzes up old nursery rhymes or the Old Merry Tale Jazz Band from Germany who had a thing going with jazzing up popular songs from the 20s or folk tunes. As did the Feetwarmers from Germany (including Klaus Doldinger in some of their early lineups) - and the DSCB, too. On another note, some well-established European revival jazz bands of the 50s and early 60s may have done some of their best work acompanying visiting (or resident expat) U.S. jazzmen of the older school (Albert Nicholas, Nelson Williams, Benny Waters, Edmond Hall a.o.). Another wide field.

Release date April 21: Louis Hayes' music is full of life and humanity. It is sometimes refreshingly simple and sometimes intricately complex, sometimes light, sometimes dark, but it is always interesting and consistently engaging. Through it all, Louis Hayes has always remained indefatigably optimistic and his latest Savant release is all those things. Throughout the album Hayes, a 2023 NEA Jazz Master, coaxes concise, well-conceived tracks from his players where everybody swings with loads of feeling, and no self-indulgence. From the first note to the last, Hayes creates performances that take veteran jazz listeners into deep jazz waters while at the same time allowing recent converts to safely wade into the invigorating flow of ideas. As difficult times often beget new beginnings, the COVID-19 quagmire gave birth to alto saxophonist Eric Alexander. To some, a tenor-to-alto switch may not seem to be a newsworthy matter, but for the initiated it's the stuff of headlines. An inveterate tenor at the apex of the scene for more than three decades, Eric put the alto away in his teen years and never looked back. "But with the dearth of opportunities to play during the pandemic, I started to work on it," he confesses. After successfully pitching the idea of using his second saxophone-with-strings project as a debut on alto, the present recording is quite simply astounding. Working with his regular rhythm section and adding ace string arrangements, this altoist delivers one revelatory performance after another.

here we go: Vol. 1 1. Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose Ben Harney 1891 2. Every Day’ll Be Sunday Bye and Bye Standard Quartette 1894 or 1895 3. Down Yonder in the Cornfield The Diamond Four 1897 4. Poor Mourner Cousins and Demoss 1897 5. Eli Green’s Cake Walk J. Cullen and W. Collins 5/98 6. Old Black Joe Thomas Craig 1898 7. Roll on de Ground Billy Golden 1899 8. Climb De Golden Fence Len Spencer late 1890s 9. Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose Silas Leachman 1901 10. Whoa Dar Mule Silas Leachman 1901 11. My Little Zulu Babe Williams and Walker 1901 12. Creole Bells Metropolitan Orchestra ca. 1902 13. Mississippi River Song Tapioca Cantrell & Williams 10/2/02 14. Turkey in the Straw Billy Golden 1902 15. All C’s Look Alike to Me Arthur Collins 1902 16. You Been a Good Old Wagon Len Spencer 1902 17. Whistling Rufus Olly Oakley 3/12/03 18. Cakewalk Anonymous 1903 (NYC) 19. Nobody Bert Williams 1906 20. When You Ain’t Got No Money You Needn’t Come Around May Irwin 1907 21. Chicken Chowder Ossman/Duddley 7/06 22. Banjo Solo Bill Simons 1908 23. I Ain’t Had No Lovin’ In A Long Time Bob Roberts 1908 (Europe comp) 24. Arkansas Traveler 1908 Len Spencer ( 25. Rise and Shine Polk Miller and his Old South Quartette 12/09 26. Old Dog Tray Carroll Clark 1910 27. Camp Meeting Jubilee Male Quartette 1910 (rock and roll?) 28. De Devilin’ Tune Stella Mayhew 1911 29. Some of These Days Sophie Tucker 1911 30. Battle of San Juan Hill Mike Bernard 2/12/12 Volume 2 1. Florida rag Van Eps Trio 1912 2. Trinidad Paseo Lovey’s Trinidad String Band 6/20/12 3. Grizzly Bear Jack Charman 1912 (wr. Irving Berlin) 4. Land of Cotton The Hedges Brothers & Jacobson 1913 5. The Memphis Blues/Mr. Crump Prince’s Band 7/24/14 6. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny Alma Gluck 11/10/14 7. Swing Along Afro-American Folk Song Singers 1914 8. Good News Tuskegee Institute Singers 8/31/14 9. Castle House Rag James Europe Society Orch. 2/10/14 10. Breakin’ the Piano Veen Lawnhurst 1915 11. Exhortation The Right Quintette 12/24/15 12. I Ain’t Got Nobody Marion Harris 1916 13. Down Home Rag Wilbur Sweatman 12/16 14. Down Home Rag The Versatile Four 1916 15. Fuzzy Wuzzy Rag W.C. Handy’s Memphis Blues Band 9/21/17 16. Cute Little Wigglin’ Dance Frisco Jass Band 8/2/17 17. Some Jazz Blues Memphis Pickaninny Band, 1917 18. Iris Lionel Belasco’s Orchestra 9/27/18 19. Dallas Blues Wilbur Sweatman 7/10/18 20. Sensation Rag Original Dixieland Jazz Band 6/25/18 21. St. Louis Blues Al Bernard 1919 22. Go Down Moses Harry Burleigh 1919 23. River of Jordan Fisk University Jubilee Singers 12/21/20 24. I’m Wild About Moonshine Southern Negro Quartette 7/21 25. Baltimore Buzz Eubie Blake and His Shuffle Along Orch. 7/15/21 Volume 3 1. Goodnight Angeline Harmony Kings 1921 2. Daddy Won’t You Please Come Home Gertrude Saunders Tim Brym 5/21 3. Harlem Strut James P Johnson 1921 4. Ragtime Annie Eck Robertson 7/1/22 5. Ross’ Juba Black Face Eddie Ross 6/22 6. Kitchen Mechanic Blues Excelsior Quartette 3/22/22 7. Toot Toot Tootsie Al Jolson 9/11/22 8. The Christian Warfare The Original Sacred Harp Choir 7/22 9. Teasin’ the Frets Nick Lucas 1922 10. Stars in a Velvety Sky Herbert L. Clarke and Orch 11/22 11. Couldn't Hear Nobody Praying Jubilee Quartette 1923 12. Elephant’s Wobble Bennie Moten Band 9/23 13. When You and I Were Young Maggie Fiddlin’ John Carson 11/8/23 14. Mother’s Religion Kentucky Trio 11/2/23 15. Mr. Crump Rag Jessie Crump 1923 16. My Soul is a Witness Paramount Jubilee Singers 11/23 17. My Way is Clouded Manhattan Harmony Four 4/23 18. The Old hen cackled and the Rooster’s Gonna Crow Fiddlin’ John Carson 6/14/23 19. Guitar Rag Sylvester Weaver 11/2/23 20. Sly Mongoose Montrose String Orchestra 7/12/23 (Belasco piano) 21. Asheville Osey Helton 1924 22. I Can’t Use You Butterbeans and Susie 9/15/24 23. If You do What You Do Eddie Cantor and the Georgians 1/4/24 24. It Looks Like Rain Wendell Hall 1924 25. Old Liza Jane Uncle Am Stuart 6/24 Volume 4 1. The Waffleman’s Call Johnny Bayersdorffer 3/17/24 2. All Night Long Roba Stanley 12/24 3. The Pickanninnies’ Paradise Emmett Miller 1924 4. Any Time Emmett Miller 10/25/24 5. Brother Noah Built an Ark Alf Taylor’s Old Limber Quartet 1924 6. Go ‘long Mule Ukulele Bob Williams 1924 7. big eyed rabbit Samantha Baumgarner Eva Davis 4/24 8. Blues Just Blues, That’s All Old Southern Jug Band 11/24/24 9. Chicago Flip Whistler & His Jug Band 9/25/24 10. Climb Up Them Golden Stairs Ernest Thompson 4/24 11. Cool Kind of Daddy Blues Anna Lee Chisholm (Lasky) 4/24 12. Cripple Creek & Sourwood Mountain Stovepipe #1 8/20/24 13. The Girl Slipped Down Dr. D.D. Hollis 6/24 14. He’s the Hottest Man in Town Cliff Edwards 10/24 15. Laughing Song The Seven Musical Magpies 1924 16. West Indies Blues Ukulele Bob Williams 1924 17. Hen Cackle Bill Chitwood and Bud Landress 11/20/24 18. Single Life Roba Stanley 7/5/25 19. Hand Me Down the Silver Trumpet Sunset Jubilee Quartet 4/25 20. Following the Cow Trail Carl T. Sprague 8/5/25 21. I Ain’t Got Nobody Bessie Smith 8/19/25 22. Last Train to Arkansas Al Bernard 1925 23. Piney Woods Girl Emmett Lundy & Ernest Stoneman 5/27/25 24. Shake That Thing Papa Charlie Jackson 5/25 25. Sweet Georgia Brown Ethel Waters 1925 26. On Jordan’s Stormy Banks We Stand Seventh Day Adventists’ Choir 1/3/26 Volume 5 1. Pilgrim’s Journey Homer Quincy Smith 12/26 2. Pratt City Blues Bertha Chippie Hill Louis Armstrong 11/23/26 3. Reign Massa Jesus Reign Wesley Female Quartet 6/26 4. Lovin’s Been Here and Gone To Mecca Flat Jimmy Blythe 5/26 5. The Sinless Summerland Ernest Stoneman 9/21/26 6. Pistol Pete’s Midnight Special Otto Gray’s Oklahoma Cowboys 5/26 7. Goin’ Back to Jericho Dock Walsh 8/17/26 8. Befo’ This Time Another Year Odette and Ethel 9/30/26 9. Candy Girl Uncle Bunt Stephens 5/29/26 10. The Cross-Eyed Butcher and the Cacklin’ Hen Uncle Dave Macon 9/9/26 11. Crucifixion Arizona Dranes 1926 12. Bristol Tennessee Al Hopkins and his Buckle Busters 10/22/26 13. Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray Evelyn Dove 1926 14. Buckdancer’s Choice Sam McGee 4/14/26 15. Down Hearted Blues Virginia Childs 11/3/26 16. Franklin Street Blues Sam McGee 4/14/26 17. I’ve Got A Ride to the Tree of Life Sister Sallie Sanders 11/1/26 18. In the Pines Doc Walsh 4/17/26 19. McKeon’s Reel Frank Quinn 1/26 20. Shine for Jesus Paramount Ladies Four 11/26 21. Sleepy Time Gal Josephine Baker 1926 22. South Street Stomp South Street Trio 11/22/26 23. Rabbit Foot Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson 1926 24. Oh Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother Kelly Harrell 6/9/26 25. The Freight Wreck of Altoona Vernon Dalhart Volume 6 1. Big Bend Gal Shelor Family 8/3/27 2. John Brown’s Dream DaCosta Woltz 5/27 3. Home Sweet Home Frank Jenkins 1927 4. I’m Comin’ Virginia Ethel Waters 9/18/26 5. There’s A City Built of Mansions Nugrape Twins 11/2/26 6. I Seen My Pretty Papa Standing on a Hill Eva Parker 12/18/26 7. The Crowing Rooster Walter Rhodes 12/10/27 8. Dixie Cowboy Aulton Ray ca. 4/26/27 9. Can’t Put a Bridle on that Mule This Morning Julius Daniels 10/24/27 10. Cluck Old Hen Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters 5/13/27 11. Come Let Us Eat Together Rev. ED Campbell and Congregation 2/26/27 12. Down Home Special Henry Johnson and His Boys 4/20/27 13. Baptist Shout Frank Jenkins 1926 14. Stack O’ Lee Blues Ma Rainey 1926 15. G Rag Georgia Yellow Hammers 8/9/27 16. Goodbye, I’ve Left the Word Behind Rev. T.T. Rose 8/27 17. Her Name was Hula Lou Carolina Tar Heels 2/19/27 18. Hesitation Blues Crying Sam Collins 9/17/27 19. Hide Away Oscar Ford 10/14/27 20. I Don’t Love Nobody Earl Johnson & His Dixies Entertainers 3/23/27 21. Your Enemy Cannot Harm You Rev. E.W. Clayborn 12/8/26 22. I Love My Mountain Home Carolina Tarheels 8/15/27 23. It’s a Good Thing Frank Stokes 1927 24. James Alley Blues Richard Rabbit Brown 3/11/27 25. Ash Can Stomp Perry and His Stomp Band 1927 Volume 7 1. Bad Luck Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson 1927 2. Beyond the River Carolina Gospel Singers 8/25/27 3. Cluck Old Hen Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters 5/13/27 4. Cold Morning Shout South Street Trio 10/27/27 5. Come Down Jailor With the Keys Williams Black Patti Jubilee Singers 7/21/27 6. Country Blues Doc Boggs 3/10/27 7. Darling Cora BF Shelton 7/29/27 8. Deep Elm Willard Robson 10/27 9. Dixie Cowboy Alton Ray 4/26/27 10. Hey Lawdy Mama Papa Harvey Hull and Long Cleve Reed 4/3/27 11. I’m Comin’ Virginia Bix Beiderbecke 1927 12. Leather Breeches Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers 10/2/27 13. Lonesome Road Blues Price Goodson/Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters 1927 14. Memphis Frolic Rag Williamson’s Beale Street Frolic Orchestra 2/27/27 15. The Moore Girl Andrew and Jim Baxter 8/2/27 16. Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose The South Georgia Highballers 10/5/27 17. Muddy Water Bing Crosby w/Paul Whiteman 1927 18. My Daddy’s Got a Brand New Way to Love Alberta Hunter 2/26/27 19. On the Banks of the Old Tennessee Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Baker 8/27 20. Red Onion Drag Louis Dumaine’s Jazzola 8 3/5/27 21. Riley the Furniture Man The Georgia Crackers 3/21/27 22. Sadie Lee Blues Peg Leg Howell 1927 23. See That My Grave is Kept Clean Bela Lam & The Greene County Singers 7/28/27 24. Though Your Sins Be Scarlet Williams & Williams 3/29/27 25. Train on the Island J.P. Nestor & Norman Edmonds 9/26/27 Volume 8 1. Boll Weevil Rabbit’s Foot Williams 1927 2. Chicago Stomp Down Duke Ellington 11/3/27 3. Don’t Let Your Head Hang Down Leecan & Cooksey 1927 4. Hot Dog Blind Lemon Jefferson 1927 5. Damfino Stomp Sylvester Weaver 4/12/27 6. He Rose from the Dead Blind Lemon Jefferson 6/27 7. Hallelujah Cotton Belt Quartet 1927 8. I Believe I’ll Go Back Home William and Versey Smith 1927 9. If I Had My Way T.T. Rose and Gospel Singers 1927 10. It All Belongs to Me Ruth Etting 8/30/27 11. Jack Of Diamonds Ben Jarrell 5/27 12. Madison Rag Gus Cannon 1927 13. Mistreatin’ Mama Rabbit’s Foot Williams 3/31/27 14. Rocking Chair Blues Original Louisville Jug band 3/30/27 yodel at 1:00 15. Sugar Blackbirds of Paradise 7/9/27 16. Twill Be All Glory Over There The Deal Family 11/5/27 17. Traveling Coon Luke Jordan 8/16/27 18. Vol Stevens’ Blues Vol Stevens 10/20/27 19. We Are Journeying On Price Family Sacred Singers 3/22/27 20. Woke up With the Blues in My Fingers Lonnie Johnson 5/2/27 21. Will My Mother Know Me There L.V. Jones and His Virginia Singing Class 9/27/27 22. Georgia Stomp Andrew & Jim Baxter 1928 23. Ham Beats All Meat Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters 3/3/28 24. Don’t Speak to Me Lottie Kimbrough 1928 25. Canned Heat Blues Tommy Johnson 8/31/28 26. Don’t get One Woman on Your Mind Willard Hodgin 1927 or 1928 Volume 9 1. He’s the lily of The Valley Texas Jubilee singers 12/8/28 2. Alabama Jubilee Bill Helms and and His Upson County band 2/3/28 3. Alabama Strut Cow Cow Davenport 7/16/28 4. Blue Coat Blues T.C. Johnson Tom Nelson 1928 5. Candy Man Blues Mississippi John Hurt 12/28/28 6. Come Over Here Elder R. Bryant 2/28/28 7. Cumberland Gap Frank Hutchison 1928 8. I’m Gonna Run to the City of Refuge Blind Willie Johnson 12/5/28 9. Left Alone Blues Ishman Bracey 1928 10. Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane Uncle John Scruggs 11/8/28 11. In the Mornin’ Johnson, Nelson, Porkchop 2/17/28 12. Johnson City Blues Clarence Green 10/15/28 13. Lindy Proximity Quartet 14. Take Me Back Frank Stokes 8/30/28 15. Tom Cat Blues Otto Gray's Oklahoma Cowboys 9/28 16. Too Tight Blues #2 Blind Blake 8/17/28 17. Touch Me Light Mama George Bullet Williams 1928 18. Travelin’ Man Albert Hunt’s Texas ramblers 3/8/28 19. Up in Glory Dr. Smith 9/12/28 20. Groundhog Jack Reedy & His Walker Mountain String Band 2/28 (bluegrass) 21. A Little talk with Jesus Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Quartet 10/30/28 22. See that My Grave is kept Clean Blind Lemon Jefferson 2/28 23. Goin’ Up Town Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters 3/3/28 24. I Surely Understand that You Love Another Man Shortbuckle Roark and Family 1928 25. Shake it Down Lillian Glinn 4/28 Volume 10 1. Shrimp Man Moses Mason 1/28 2. Cryin’ for You Sammy Hill 1929 3. Ha Ha Blues Rosie Mae Moore 2/3/28 4. Ida Red Tweedy Brothers 3/28 5. In the Mornin’ Johnson, Nelson, Porkchop 2/17/28 6. These bones Gwine Rise Again Rutherford & Foster 4/10/29 7. Shine on Me Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers 10/29/28 8. Sister Maude Mule Alec Johnson 11/2/28 9. Skip the Gutter Louis Armstrong Earl Hines 6/27/28 10. Stealin’ Stealin’ Memphis Jug Band 9/15/28 11. Steamboat Man Roy Harvey 10/18/28 12. Old Country Stomp Henry Thomas 6/13/28 13. Papa’s ‘Bout to Get Mad Pink Anderson/Simmie Dooley 4/14/28 14. Poor Boy Gus Cannon 1928 15. San Tub Jug Washboard Band 1928 16. How Much Can I Stand? Gladys Bentley 11/15/28 17. Sunshine Special Frenchy’s String Band 12/25/28 18. I Ain’t Got Nobody Sophie Tucker 1928 19. I’ve Always Been A Rambler Grayson & Whittier 7/31/28 20. Trinity River Texas Tommy 10/28 21. Turkey Buzzard Blues Peg Leg Howell and Eddie Anthony 10/30/28 22. Wagoner’s Lad Buel Kazee 1/18/28 23. I Would If I Could Al Miller 12/28 24. Vacation in Heaven Missionary Josephine Miles& Sister Elizabeth Cooper 5/15/28 25. If You Want the Rainbow Lee Morse 11/3/28 Volume 11 1. Lafayette Joseph Falcon 4/27/28 2. Lay Down Baby, Take Your Rest carolina tarheels 10/11/28 3. Little David Play on Your Harp Joe Reed Family 6/28 4. King of Kings Rev. Johnny Blakey (Bessie Johnson) 12/6/28 5. Mississippi Jailhouse Groan Rube Lacy 3/28 6. Mill Man Blues Billy Bird 1928 7. Nobody Loves me Hershel Brown & His Washboard Band 2/24/28 8. How Long is that Train Been Gone? Roy Evans 6-18-28 9. Palolo Charlie Wilson 1928 10. Kiss Me Quick Georgia Yellow Hammers 10/18/28 11. Went Up in the Clouds of Heaven Ernest Phipps& His Holiness Singers 10/29/29 12. When I Woke Up This Morning She Was Gone Jim Jackson 8/27/28 13. When the Gates Bush 4/26/28 14. Wire Grass Drag Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers 8/9/28 15. Yes I Know Rev. Calbert and Sister Billie Holstein 2/28 16. You’re Going to Leave the Old Home Jim Eva Parker 11/27/28 17. Back in the Alley Cow Cow Davenport 5/1/29 18. Blue Ridge Rambler's Rag H.M. Barnes' Blue Ridge Ramblers 1/28/29 19. Callahan Rag Roane Country Ramblers 10/21/29 20. Careless Love Slim Barton and Eddie Mapp 1929 21. The Cat’s Got The Measles Walter Smith 3/20/29 22. Cairo Blues Henry Spaulding 5/9/29 23. The Girl I Love She’s Got Long Curly Hair 9/24/29 24. Bathe in the Beautiful Pool Doc Walsh 9/25/29 25. I Wish That Gal Was Mine Hershel Brown & His Washboard Band 8/06/28 Volume 12 1. Alabama Breakdown Hershel Brown & His Happy Five 3/19/29 (DRUMS like JR EUROPE) 2. Get Up Off That Jazzophone the Bubbling Over Five 10/13/29 3. Give the World a Smile The Corley Family 12/4/29 4. Head Rag Hop Romeo Nelson 9/5/29 5. I’m Goin’ Up The Country Papa Eggshell 5/7/29 6. Jonestown Blues Gus Cannon (Banjo Joe) 11/27 7. Elder Green Blues Charlie Patton 10/29 8. Little Bessie Darby & Tarlton 10/31/29 9. Three in One Two Step East Texas Serenaders 10/27/29 10. Augusta Rag Melvin Dupree 4/2/29 11. Louisiana Glide Blind Leroy Garnett 10/12/29 12. Mississippi Bottom Blues Kid Bailey 9/25/29 13. Mon Chere Bebe Creole Dennis McGee 3/29 14. Mule Skinner Moan Ben Covington 1929 15. My Sportin’ Man Mamie Smith 1929 16. No 29 Wesley Wallace 1929 17. Roll and Tumble Blues Hambone Willie Newbern 3/14/29 18. Tom Brown Sits In His Prison Cell Luke Jordan 11/19/29 19. The Train’s Done Left Me (60s FOLK) carolina tarheels 4/3/29 20. Turn Away Lubbock texas Quartet 12/6/29 21. A Precious Sweetheart from Me Has Gone Dock Walsh 9/25/29 22. Rambling Lover Dick Rheinhart 10/27/29 23. Riffs James P. Johnson 1/29/29 24. Roving Cowboy Frank Jenkins 1929 25. Aunt Jemimah Stomp Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers 3/15/29 Volume 13 1. I Ain’t Got Nobody Louis Armstrong 12/10/29 2. I Got a Gal James Cole’s String Band 6/25/28 3. I Never Told a Lie Memphis Minnie Joe McCoy 5/29/30 4. I Want Someone to Love Me Tommy Johnson 12/29 5. Little Sadie Clarence Ashley 1929 6. My Kinda Love Bing Crosby 3/14/29 7. My Loved Ones Are Waiting Carolina Ladies Quartette 1929 8. Naptown Special Herve Duerson 8/28/29 9. Stone Mountain Rag Roanoke Jug Band 10/18/29 10. Sugar Blues Coley Jones and the Dallas String Band 12/6/29 11. Sur Le Chemin Chez Moi Soileau Couzens 11/7/29 12. What Wouldn’t I Do For That Man Anette Hanshaw 9/16/29 13. Don’t Put That Thing On Me Cliff Gibson 1929 14. Way Down in Arkansas Hambone Willie Newbern 3/14/29 15. Sweet Milk and Peaches Narmour & Smith 9/25/29 16. Oh What A Change Megginson Female Quartet ca. 1929 17. What Kind of Shoes You Gwine to Wear? William Rexroat’s Cedar Singer 1/8/29 18. Old Joe Clark Bradley Kincaid 10/8/30 19. Doggone That Train Jimmie Davis 1930 20. Dollar Bill Blues Charley Jordan 6/30 21. Don’t Think I’m Santa Claus Lil McLintock 12/4/30 22. Husking Bee The Yellow Jackets 7/28/30 23. I’ll Take It Now Pigmeat Pete and Wesley Wilson 1930 24. I’ll Play My Harp in Beulah Land Brothers Wright and Williams 12/9/30 25. Heat It Frankie Half Pint Jackson Tampa Read Georgia Tom Dorsey 6/11/29 Volume 14 1. Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party 8/29/30 2. Bake That Chicken Pie Jackson County Barn Owls 5/17/30 3. Bring It With You When You Come Cannon’s Jug Stompers 11/24/30 4. Buy a Half Pint and Stay in the Wagon Earl Johnson 12/3/30 5. Day is Past Primitive Baptist Choir 3/25/30 6. Dollar Bill Charley Jordan 6/30 7. Don’t Think I’m Santa Claus Lil McClintock 12/4/30 8. Eight of January Ted Gossett’s Band 9/16/30 9. Fare Thee Well Blues Joe Callicott 1930 10. Georgia Wobble Blues Carroll County Revelers 3/21/30 11. Give Us Another Jug Piano Kid Edwards 12/30 12. Grandma’s Farm Big Bill Broonzy 4/9/30 13. I Know My Time Ain’t Long Delta Big Four (pattons friends) 5/25/30 14. I’m On My Way Kentucky Holiness Singers 3/28/30 15. I’ve Grown So Used to You Mcfarland and Gardner 4/3/30 16. In the Jailhouse Now Jimmie Rodgers 7/12/30 17. Jackson Stomp Mississippi Mud Stepper 12/15/30 18. Kentucky Blues Little Hat Jones 1930 19. Knox County Stomp Tennessee Chocolate Drops 4/3/30 20. Last Kind Words Blues Geeshie Wiley 1930 21. Let Your Light Shine for Jesus Rev. J.L. Hendrix 10/27/30 22. Lorena Blue Ridge Mountain Singers 4/21/30 23. Man Trouble Blues Jaybird Coleman 1930 24. Mississippi Farm County Blues Son House 5/28/30 25. Sister Mary Wore Three Lengths of Chain Slim Duckett and Pig Norwood 12/16/30 Volume 15 1. That Too, Do Bennie Moten Orch. Jimmy Rushing 10/28/30 2. South Carolina Rag William Walker 12/6/30 3. Speckled Red’s Blues Speckled Red 4/8/30 4. Sweet Sixteen Charlie Poole 1/23/30 5. Tallahatchie River Blues Mattie Delaney 2/21/30 6. This Song of Love Middle Georgia Singing Convention 12/10/30 7. Vicksburg Stomp Mississippi Mud Stepper 12/15/30 8. Walkin’ Cane Stomp Kentucky Jug Band ******WESTERN SWING 8/30 9. Walking With My King Middle Georgia Singing Convention 12/10/30 black SHaped note 10. The Whole World In His Hands Bessie Johnson 3/21/29 11. Your Low Down Ways Carolina Tarheels 11/19/30 12. Abrew’s Portuguese Jazz Abrew’s Portuguese Instrumental Trio 2/16/31 13. Atlanta Bound gene Autry 10/29/31 14. Bedside Blues Jim Thompkins 2/21/31 15. Darn Good Girl Buster Carter Preston Young 6/26/31 16. My Good Gal’s Gone Jimmie Rodgers 1931 17. Old Hen Cackle The Two Poor Boys Joe Evans and Arthur McClain 5/20/31 18. 4 O’Clock Blues Skip James 1931 19. Get Your head in Here Three ‘Baccer tags 5/29/31 20. Greenville Strut Stovepipe and Sarah 1931 21. I’ll Lead a Christian Life Golden P. Harris 3/19/31 22. It’s Hard to Love and Can’t Be Loved Buster Carter & Preston Young 6/26/31 pre bluegrass 23. Molly Put the kettle On The Skillet Lickers 10/24/31 24. Pick Poor Robin Clean Geeshie Wiley 1931 25. Please Don’t Wake it Up Mississippi Sheiks 10/24/31 Volume 16 1. Poor Jane Blues Jack Gowdlock 5/29/31 2. Reaching for the Moon Roy Smeck Trio 1931 3. Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms Buster Carter Preston Young 1931 4. Shout You Cats Hezekiah Jenkins 1/16/31 5. Swing Low Sweet Chariot 1931 Jules Bledsoe 1931 6. Take A Look at That Baby The Two Poor Boys Joe Evans and Arthur McClain 5/20/31 7. Try And Treat Her Right Ben Ferguson 6/16/31 8. Clanka A Lanka (Sleep on Mother) Famous Bluejay Singers of Birmingham 1/32 (LEAD!) 9. Gone Dead Train King Solomon Hill 1932 10. Hallelujah Side Tindley Quaker City Gospel Singers 3/8/32 11. The Laffing Rag Ben Curry 1/32 12. Long Tall Mama Big Bill Broonzy 3/30/32 13. Na Pua O Hawaii George Ku Trio 1932 14. Preacher Blues Henry Brown 1932 15. Sally Gooden W.M. Smith 10/1/32 16. Cold Iron Bed Jack Kelly and his South Memphis Jug Band 8/1/33 17. Miss Handy Hanks Archie Lewis 3/30/33 18. Ladies Quadrille The Happy Hayseeds 3/4/30 19. Market Street Stomp Frank Melrose 4/9/30 20. Deep Elm Blues The Lone Star Cowboys 8/4/33 21. Go ‘Long Mule Louisiana Lou 12/4/33 22. Hambone Am Sweet Southern Singers 2/23/33 23. I’ve Got the Big River Blues Delmore Brothers 12/6/33 24. Just Because the Lone Star Cowboys 8/5/33 25. Tampa Strut the Georgia Browns 1/19/33 Volume 17 1. Go Down Old Hannah Iron Head Baker and others 1933 2. Wait for Me Harold and Hazel 1933 3. Western Cowboy Huddle Ledbetter 16-20 July 1933 4. Sunset Amede Ardoin and Dennis McGee 1934 5. Ted’s Stomp Louie Bluie and Ted Bogan 3/25/34 black country 6. Throw Me In the Alley Peetie Wheatstraw And His Blue Blowers 8/24/34 7. After You’ve Gone Art Tatum 8/24/34 8. Cacklin’ Hen Blind Pete and Partner 9/27/34 9. I Believe I’ll Make a Change Leroy Carr Scrapper Blackwell 8/16/34 10. I Feel Like Dyin’ in this Army Austin Coleman, Joe Washington, & Group 7/34 11. I’m Walkin’ This Town The Spirits of Rhythm 9/4/34 12. J'Ai Fair Tout Le Tour Du Pays Jimmy Peters and the Ring Dance Singers 6/34 13. Little Liza Jane Wilson Stavin’ Chain Jones & Group 6/34 14. Le Blues Du Petite Chien Breaux Freres 10/9/34 15. Matchbox Blues Larry Hensley 1/25/34 16. Moon Country Hoagy Carmichael 3/9/34 (tommy Dorsey trumpet) 17. My Good Gal Has Thrown Me Down Homer Callahan 8/17/34 18. My Soul is a Witness Austin Coleman Joe Washington Brown, Group ca. 7/34 19. St. Louis Blues Cliff Edwards 10/19/34 20. How You Want Your Rollin’ Done Louis Lasky 4/2/35 21. I’m Troubled in Mind Southern University Quartet 1/22/35 22. Stack O’ Lee Blues King, Queen, and Jack 1935 23. Sugar Babe High and Shug’s Radio Pals 7/16/37 24. My Man’s Gone Now (Porgy and Bess) Ruby Elzy 1935 25. Sunshine Alley Stuart Hamblen 2/25/35 26. Field Mouse Stomp Minnie Wallace and her Night Hawks 1935 Volume 18 1. I’m Sitting on Top of the World The Shelton Brothers 12/19/35 2. Old Time Blues Carl Martin 7/27/35 3. Po' Laz'us Booker T. Sapps Roger Matthews 6_35 4. Podunk Toddle The Freeny Harmonizers 10/20/35 5. Baby Please Don’t Go Big Joe Williams 10/31/35 6. Coquette Boots and His Buddies 8/14/35 7. Les Bleues De Bosco Fats’ Raybo Ramblers, 8/10/35 8. Elm Street Woman Blues Dallas Jamboree Jug Band 9/20/35 9. Fiddler’s Dream Arthur Smith 1/22/35 10. Down by the Ohio Milton Brown and his Brownies 1/35 11. Magnolia Waltz Cherokee Ramblers 7/11/35 12. You Got To Go Down Blind Gary Davis 7/26/35 13. Shoeshine Boy Lester Young/Clayton/Basie/Page/Jo Jones 10/9/36 14. Somebody’s Been Using that Thing Callahan Brothers 12/22/36 15. Moonglow Mississippi Mud Mashers 1/21/35 16. Anytime Emmett Miller 9-1-36 17. What's the Matter Now? Lawrence Walker 1936 18. Blues in the Bottle Jimmy Revard and his Ok. Playboys 10-26-36 19. Farrish Street Jive Little Brother Montgomery 10/16/36 20. Give Me My Money Blue RIdge Playboys 11/36 21. Honky Tonk Train Meade Lux Lewis 5/7/36 22. Hittin’ The Bottle Stomp Mississippi Jook Band 1/20/36 23. Cripple Creek Jimmy Strothers 6/14/36 24. Guess who’s in town Bill Boyd cowboy ramblers 10/27/36 25. Last Fair Deal Gone Down Robert Johnson 11/27/36 26. Mayflower Stripling Brothers 3/12/36 (folk rag?) Volume 19 1. Mama Let Me Lay It On You 2/8/36 2. New Jelly Roll Blues Al Dexter 11/28/36 3. New River Train Monroe Brothers 2/17/36 4. Oh Lord, Don’t ‘low Me to Beat Em Willie Williams 1936 5. Soap Box Blue Jack Pierce (Slim Mays) 9/36 6. Watermelon on the Vine J.E. Mainer’s Mountaineers 6/15/36 7. Weave Room Blues The Dixon Brothers 2/12/36 8. Never No Mo’ Blues The Rhythm Wreckers 1937 9. One More River Sons of the Pioneers 12/14/37 10. Porquoi Que tu Laise Moi Clifford Breaux 2/15/37 11. Stay out of the South LC Doughboys 6/20/37 12. Sugar Babe High and Shug’s Radio Pals 7/16/37 13. Bell Clappin’ Mama Bill Carlisle 2/16/37 14. East Texas Drag East Texas Serenaders 2/20/37 15. Everybody’s Truckin’ Smokey Wood 3/1/37 16. I’m Moaning All Day For You Five Jinks 2/20/37 17. Moten Swing Carolina Cotton Pickers 3/24/37 18. Frankie and Johnny Alabama Boys 1937 19. Glory in the Meeting House Luther Strong1937 20. Golden Gate Gospel Train Golden Gate Quartet 8/7/37 21. John’s Idea Count Basie 7/7/37 22. She's Selling what She Used to Give Away Buddy Jones 9/21/38 23. Just Dream of You Norfolk Jazz Quarter 7/16/37 24. Knocking on the Hen House Door Lester ‘Pete’ Bivins 2/20/37 25. Little Maggie Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris 8/2/37 26. Milk Cow Blues Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers 2-5-37 27. Old Dad John Rector 1937 28. Coal Creek March Pete Steele 3/29/38 29. Cowboy Rhythm Patsy Montana 2/17/38 Volume 20 1. Fiddle and Guitar Running Wild Walter Hurdt 9/29/38 2. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Adelaide Hall Fats Waller 8/28/38 3. Jivin’ Woman Blues Blind Boy Fuller 1938 4. Katie Dear The Blue Sky Boys 1/25/38 5. Memphis Blues the Nite Owls 1938 6. Mitchell Blues Wade Mainer 1938 7. Mollie Married A Travelin’ Man J.H. Howell 1/29/38 8. Pray for the Lights to Go Out Bob Wills 5/16/38 9. Sewing on the Mountain Coon Creek Girls 1938 10. St. Louis Stomp Speckled Red 12/17/38 11. Tiger Rag Jelly Roll Morton 1938 12. When the Sun is Setting on the Prairie Roy Rogers 13. Your Soul Never Dies Smith’s Carolina Crackerjacks 9/29/38 14. De Blind Man Stood on De Road and Cried Morris Brown Quartet 8/23/39 15. Down the Line Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1939 16. Orange Blossom Special Roy Hall and His Blue Ridge Entertainers 11/7/38 17. Footprints in the Snow Cliff Carlisle 1939 18. Headin’ for Texas and Home Roy Rogers/Sons of Pioneers 4/18/39 19. I’m Not Angry With You Darling Four Picked Pepper 8/22/39 20. Farther Along Pine Ridge Boys 8/22/39 21. Matzoh Balls Slim Gaillard 10/11/39 22. Hear De Lambs/Plenty Good Room Roland Hayes 1939 23. Plantation Blues The Sons of the Ozarks 12/8/39 24. Streamline Train Cripple Clarence Lofton 1939 25. Tu Peus Pas Me Fair Ca Alley Boys of Abbeville 6/30/39 26. Up Jumped the Devil Byron Parker and his Mountaineers, Snuffy Jenkins 2/9/40 27. Walk Around The Soul Stirrers 1939 Volume 21 1. I’d Rather Drink Muddy Water The Cats and the Fiddle 6/27/39 2. I’ll Get Mine in the Bye and Bye Buddy Jones Bob Dunn 3/4/39 3. Six White Horses Bill Monroe 10/7/40 4. Moten Swing Charlie Parker with Jay McShann 11/30/40 5. Gonna Ride ‘til the Sun Goes Down Johnny Barefield 2/5/40 6. I’m Through With You Big Joe and His Washboard Band 12/17/40 7. Key to the Highway Jazz Gillum 1940 8. Koko Duke Ellington 11/7/40 9. Laughing at Life Lewis Bronzeville Five 4/11/40 10. Muleskinner Blues Bill Monroe 10/7/40 11. Nobody’s Business Riley Puckett 10/11/40 12. A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ But a Bird Louis Jordan 9/30/40 13. Yancey’s Bugle Call Jimmy Yancey 9/6/40 14. Nice Work If You Can Get It (Excerpt) Thelonious Monk Minton’s 5/41 15. I Never Loved But One The Carter Family 1941 16. Catfish Blues Robert Petway 4/28/41 17. Gallows Pole Leadbelly 1941 18. House of the Rising Sun Alamanac Singers (Seeger/Guthrie) 7/41 19. Mama Knows What Papa Wants Georgia White 3/41 20. I’m Gonna Lift Up a Standard for My King Church of God in Christ 8/41 21. Old Ship of Zion Paramount Juniors 11/10/41 22. Slewfoot on the Levee Light Crust Doughboys (Zeke Campbell) 2/27/41 23. Worried Life Blues Big Maceo 6/24/41 24. Stand By Me Sister Rosetta Tharpe 3/41 25. Why Don’t You Do Right? Lil Green 4/23/41 26. You Got To Roll David Honeyboy Edwards 7/42 27. You Got To Take Sick and Die Some of These Days Muddy Water 7/42 28. Eighth of January Nathan Frazier & Frank Patterson 3/42 29. Blues Trip Me This Morning Tommy McLennan 2/20/42 Volume 22 1. Born To Lose Ted Daffan 2/20/42 2. I Be Bound to Write To You Muddy Waters 7/24/42 3. Joe Turner Blues Son Simms 4 (Muddy Water) 7/24/42 4. Mean Old World T. Bone Walker 7/31/42 5. Missionary Sermon J.H. Terrell 7/23/42 6. Soon in the Mornin’ Sid Hemphill 8/15/42 7. I’m a Soldier in the Army of the Lord Rev. McGhee 7/42 8. Stormy Weather Ethel Waters 10/42 9. Walking the Floor Over You Ernest Tubb 1942 10. Tall Skinny Poppa Sister Rosetta Tharpe 11. Trouble Trouble Betty Roche 1943 12. West Kinney Street Blues Skoodle-Dum-Do and Sheffield 11/6/43 13. I Want Two Wings Utah Smith 1944 14. Downhearted Blues Miss Rhapsody (Viola Wells) 11/21/44 15. East of the Sun Sarah Vaughan Dizzy Gillespie 12/31/44 16. God’s Mighty Hand Utah Smith 1944 17. That’s the Stuff Sonny Terry Brownie McGhee 12/12/44 18. Remember Me T. Texas Tyler 1945 19. Shaw ‘Nuff Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie Al Haig 1945 20. Tent Show Rag Brun Campbell 1940s 21. The Honeydripper Part 1. Joe Liggins 1945 22. What Is This Thing Called Love? Lenny Tristano 1945 23. At the End of the Trail Blackwood Brothers Quartet 1940s 24. Indiana Don Byas Slam Stewart 1945 25. Coquette Leo Watson 1/24/45 26. I’ll Remember You Cecil Gant 1945 Volume 23 1. Don’t You Lie to Me Texas Ruby 1945 2. Love Me Or Leave Me Kay Starr 1945 3. Across the Sea Gribble, Lusk, York 9/46 4. Empty Bed Blues Ivy Anderson 10/46 5. I’m Talkin’ About You Bob Wills Junior Bernard 1946 6. Railroad Bill Hobart Smith 1946 7. The Reefer No. Jo Jo Adams 6/11/46 8. Trouble in Mind Tex Ritter 12/11/46 9. What’s New? June Christy 1/46 10. You Won’t Let Me Go Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers 1946 11. Pigmeat Strut Merle Travis 4/8/46 12. Did You Ever Try to Cry? Gatemouth Moore 12/26/47 13. I Just Keep Lovin’ Her Little Walter & Othum Brown 1947 14. It Never Entered My Mind Frank Sinatra 11/5/47 15. Milk Cow Blues Maddox Brothers and Rose 1947 16. New Mississippi River Blues York Brothers 9/1/47 17. Nobody In Mind Joe Turner 11/29/47 18. Placetas Chano Pozo and Orch -2/4/47 19. Sad and Disappointed Big Maybelle 12/47 20. Too Many Blues Bill Nettles 1947 21. Weird Lullaby Babs Gonzales 5/47 22. Unloved and Unclaimed Roy Acuff 11/19/47 23. Forgive Me Manny Nichols 1949 24. Life is a Problem Sister O.M. Terrell 1948 25. It’s Too Soon to Know The Orioles 1948 26. Stand By Me Sister Matthews 1948 27. Milk ‘em in the Morning Blues Tennessee Ernie Ford 1948 Volume 24 1. Grievin' Blues John Lee Hooker 1948 2. What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? Lily Brothers 1948 3. Fast Train Through Arkansas Wayne Raney 1948 4. Hallelujah We Shall Rise Sauceman Brothers late 1940s 5. Hard Times Will Soon Be Over Blue Ridge Quartet 1948 6. Little David Play on Your Harp Merle Travis 3/20/48 7. Lost on the River Hank Williams 1948 8. Goin’ to Virginia Ralph Willis 6/8/48 9. God Don’t Like It Elder A. Johnson ca. 1948 10. There is Another Mule in Your Stall Nellie Lutcher – 1948 11. What You Gonna Do Cavalry Quartet 1948 12. I’m Wondering and Wondering Ray Charles 1948 13. Lord Will Make a Way Elder A. Johnson ca. 1948 14. All Night Long Homer and Jethro 1948 15. Looking for a Woman Roy Brown 1948 16. We Will Know Roy Lanham and his Gospel Quartet 1948 17. Yodel Your Blues Away Bill Haley 1949 18. Night Watchman Blues Memphis Minnie 1949 (scream 1:36) 19. Poor Ellen Smith Molly O’Day 4/4/49 20. Prelude to a Nighmare Babs Gonzales 3/11/49 21. Sweet Georgia Brown Bud Powell 22. When Your Lover Has Gone Julia Lee 1949 23. Where the Sun Never Goes Down Willie Mae Williams 10/29/49 24. Cabin in Caroline Flatt and Scruggs 1949 25. Cuttin’ Out Annie Laurie 1949 26. Dallas Blues Floyd Dixon 1949 27. I Got to Cross the River Jordan Blind Willie McTell 1949 Volume 25 1. Hey Little Girl Professor Longhair 1949 2. I Almost Lost My Mind Ivory Joe Hunter 10/21/49 3. Trixie Curley Weaver 1949 4. Baby Don’t You Want to Go Dan Pickett 1949 (Scotty Moore) 5. For Old Times Sake Johnny and Jack 1949 6. Goin’ Back Home Dennis McMillon 8/49 7. I Ain't Got Nobody Peggy Lee 1949 8. I Wonder John Lee Hooker 1949 9. Baby Shame on You Wynonie Harris 10/19/49 10. In the Middle of the Night Amos Milburn 1949 11. Joe Turner Link Davis 1949 12. Jumpin’ At the Jubilee Joe Turner ca. 1949 13. Lou, Cindy Lou Walter Brown 10/31/49 14. In the Jailhouse Webb Pierce 1950 15. All In Down and Out Blues Uncle Dave Macon 1950 16. Release Me Eddie Miller 1950 17. Louisiana Blues Muddy Waters 1950 18. The Letter Harry Partch 1950 19. My Baby Left Me Arthur Crudup 11/8/50 scotty guitar 20. The Tree of Life is Waiting for Me Prophet Powers 1950 21. Joliet Blues Johnny Shines 10/23/1950 22. Love Her With A Feeling Tampa Red 7/3/50 23. Muskadine Blues Little Walter 1950 24. Pan American Boogie Delmore Brothers 1950 25. Rollin’ and Tumblin’ Part 1 Little Walter Muddy Waters Leroy Foster 1/50 26. Take Out Some Time Miss Sharecropper (Laverne Baker) 1950 27. Soony Roony (Song of Yxabat) Slim Gaillard and His Peruvians 3/5/51 28. Rockin’ With Red Piano Red 1950 Volume 26 1. I’ll Drown in My Own Tears Lula Reed 1951 2. I’ve Got Mine Pink Anderson 5/29/50 3. You’ve Gotta Lay Down Momma Johnny Beck 1950 4. Crying at Daybreak Howlin’ Wolf 1951 5. Travelin’ Blues Left Frizzell 6/1/51 6. Trouble in Mind Jerry Irby 1951 7. Walkin’ on Top of the World Peck Touchton 1951 8. Please Tell Me Baby Varetta Dillard 1/22/51 9. Wrong Road Blues Tommy Duncan 1951 10. She Done Moved Harmonica Frank 1951 11. Every Day Will Be Sunday By and By Dorothy Love Coates & the Orig. Gospel Harmonettes 7/5/51 12. Big Mama Blues Jimmy Murphy 1951 13. Black Gal Walter Horton 6/51 14. By and By Sister Jessie Mae Renfro 1951 15. Goin’ Away Walkin’ Harmonica Frank 1951 16. Good Lovin’ H Bomb Ferguson 12/12/51 17. Hi Tone Poppa Tillman Franks 1951 18. Don’t Jive Me Smiley Lews 4/51 19. Juiced Billy Love 6/51 20. Lone Town Blues Junior Brooks 1951 21. I Wanna Be Mama’d Jimmy Logsdon 1951 22. You Go To My Head Bob Graettinger Stand Kenton 9/15/52 23. Sparrow in the Barrel Johnny Sparrow 1952 24. Strange Things Henry Green 3/52 25. Take a Little Walk With Me Boyd Gilmore 1/23/52 26. Twice the Lovin’ (In Half the Time) Jean Shepard 1952 27. Walked All Night Charlie Booker 1952 28. Monkey Motion Houston Boines 1952 Volume 27 1. Please Find My Baby Elmore James 1/52 2. Reeling and Rocking Fats Domino 1/52 3. River’s Invitation Percy Mayfield 1/22/52 4. Satisfied Blue Ridge Quartet 1952 5. Fine Looking Woman BB King 1952 6. It Wasn’t God Who Make Honky Tonk Angels Rosalie Allen 7/52 7. Long Time No See Frank Hunter and his Black Mountain Boys 1952 8. I Was Praying Five Blind Boys of Mississippi 1952 9. I’m in the Mood for Love Doris Day 1952 10. Let Your Tears Fall Baby Big Mama Thornton 1952 11. Maggie Campbell Robert Nighthawk 10/25/52 12. Me and the Devil Rev. Chambers 1952 13. Have Mercy Baby Billy Ward & His Dominos (McPhatter) 1952 14. Holsten Valley Breakdown Ronnie Knittel and the Holsten Valley Ramblers Early 1950s 15. Dream Girl Jesse Belvin 1952 16. Easy Easy Baby Varetta Dillard 5/6/52 17. Goin’ Down Slow Billy Wright 10/8/52 18. Ain’t a Bump in the Road Roy Hogsed 11/17/52 19. Ain’t No More Texas Melody Boys early 1950s 20. Body and Soul Eddie Jefferson 7/11/52 21. Baby I'm Coming Home Charlie Booker 1952 22. Blue Midnight Little Walter 1952 LISTEN AT !:45+ 23. Crying Blue Smitty and his String Men 7/11/52 24. Darling Brown Eyes Church Brothers ca. 1950 25. Dial 110 Blues Country Jim Bledsoe 1952 26. Better Late Than Never Buster Pack and His Lonesome Pine Boys 1952 27. Catfish Blues Bobo Thomas Sonny Boy Williamson 7/52 28. Zindy Lou The Chimes 1953 29. There is Only One Four Leaf Clover Quartet 1953 Volume 28 1. Tran La Ezy The Musical Four Plus One early 1950s 2. The Story of My Life Guitar Slim 10/26/53 3. The Gypsy Louis Armstrong 10/22/53 4. She's All Right Muddy Waters 9/24/53 5. Just Can’t Stay Willie Nix 1953 6. Tempus Fugit Miles Davis 1953 7. A Million Mistakes Claude King 1953 8. My Baby Left Me Big Boy Spires 1/17/53 9. No Shoes Eddie Kirkland 1953 10. Old Grey Goose Red Belcher and the Kentucky Ridgerunners Early 1950s 11. Rock Me Lucky Joe Almond 1953 12. Saving My Love for You Johnny Ace 12/53 13. Arkansas Traveler Jimmy Bryant Speed West 12/8/53 14. Bye and Bye Bob Angliano Quartet 1953 15. Descent Into the Maelstrom Lenny Tristano 1953 16. Diggin’ My Potatoes Washboard Sam Bill Broonzy 1953 17. Feelin’ Bad Junior Parker 10/53 18. Grande Nuit Especial Iry LeJeune 1953 19. I Heard About You Charlene Arthur 1953 20. Have I Waited Too Long Faron Young 1953 21. I’m Crying Holy Unto the Lord Brother Claude Ely 10/53 22. It Don’t Hurt Anymore Hank Snow 12/16/53 23. Lonesome Old Jail D. A. Hunt 5/53 24. Love My Baby Junior Parker 1953 25. You Gotta Be My Baby George Jones 1954 26. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Thelonius Monkk 6/7/54 27. Thrice Upon a Theme (excerpt) Charles Mingus 12/54 28. What’s It All About? Little Leo 1954 Volume 29 1. Too Close to Heaven Bessie Griffin 1954 2. When the Saints Go Marching In Papa Lightfoot 4/17/54 3. I’m So Lonesome Hobo Jack 1954 4. Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down Caudill Family 1954 5. blue Moon of Kentucky Elvis Presley 1954 6. Bonus Pay Pat Hare 5/14/54 7. Don’t Explain Helen Merrill 12/54 8. Eva Lee James Walton ca. 1954 9. Hey Little Girl Billy Emerson 1/11/54 10. Honky Tonk Gal Carl Perkins 1954 11. I Could Love You All the Time Estill Stewart and the Flat Mountain Boys 1954 12. Jolie Tee Caitin Clarence Garlow 1954 13. Lovin’ You JB Hutto 1954 14. No Nights By Myself Sonny Boy Williams 12/12/54 (listen to 2:13!) 15. Prelude to a Kiss Billy Holiday/Jimmy Rowles 1954 16. Choose the One You Want Hoyle Nix 1955 17. Just a Lonely Boy Clifton Chenier 1955 18. Do Lord Deep South Quartet 1955 19. Don’t Cry Baby Little Jimmy Scott 4/22/55 20. Don’t Worry About Me Julie London 1955 21. Downbound Train Chuck Berry 1955 22. God’s Creation Those Golden Bells Gospel Song Birds ca. 1955 23. Hide Me Rock of Ages Speer Family 1955 24. Hidin’ Out Patsy Cline 6/1/55 25. I’m Just a Lonely Guy Little Richard 1955 26. You’re Fer Me Buck Owens 1955 27. Making Believe Kitty Wells 1955 28. Need a Hundred Dollars One String Sam 1955 Volume 30 1. Hottentot Potentate Bobby Short 1955 2. I Woke Up Screaming Bobby Blue Bland 1955 3. I’m in the Mood Nappy Brown 1955 4. Ruby Baby The Drifters 9/19/55 5. She’s Fine She’s Mine Bo Diddley 1955 6. Social Call Betty Carter 5/55 7. When They Ring Those Golden Bells Gospel Song Birds ca. 1955 8. What Happened Last Night Alec Wilder Mundell Lowe 1956 9. You Can Fly High Earl King 12/56 10. Just Wailing Louie Meyers 1956 11. You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To (excerpt) Cecil Taylor 1956 12. Lonesome Train on a Lonesome Track Johnny Burnette Trio 7/2/56 13. My Babe One String Sam 1956 14. No More Abbey Lincoln 1956 15. Ooh-Wow Roy Montrell 8/18/56 16. Sinner’s Cross Roads Slver Quintette ca. 1956 17. Slow Down Cochran Brothers 1956 18. Suzie Q Dale Hawkins 1956 19. There I’ve Said It Again Big Maybelle 7/20/56 20. Three Hours Past Midnight Johnny Guitar Watson 1956 21. The Train That Carried My Girl From Town Vernon Sutphin Cleve Sutphin 1/56 22. Uncloudy Day Staple Singers 9/11/56 23. All On Account of You Speckled Red 1956 24. Baby Don’t Say That No More Jimmy Reed 1956 25. Half as Good a Girl Wanda Jackson 26. Can’t Hardly Stand It Charlie Feathers 1956 27. Could It Be You The Four Tops 1956 28. Crazy Arms Jerry Lee Lewis 1956 Volume 31 1. Black Jack David Warren Smith 1956 2. Crazy Arms Ray Price 3/1/56 3. Death When You Come to Me Moondog 1956 4. East Virginia Blues Stanley Brothers 1956 5. I’m in Love Solomon Burke '56 6. I Don’t Know James Brown 1956 7. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Elizabeth Cotton 1957 8. You Can Bet Your Life (I DO) Esther Phillips 5/2/56 9. Lord I Come to Thee Deacon Leroy Shinault 1956 10. Groaning the Blues Otis Rush 1957 11. Let ‘Em Roll The Midnighters (Hank Ballard) 1957 12. I’ll Weep No More Betty Everett 1957 13. What is This ThIng Called Love Sonny Rollins 1957 14. Wilson Rag Elizabeth Cotton 1957 15. Searchin’ The Coasters 2/15/57 16. Everything Gonna Be All Right Magic Sam 1958 17. Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow Congregation of Mt. Olive Reg. Baptist Church 1959 18. You’ve got to Lose Jackie brenston Ike Turner 1958 19. Respectable Isley Brothers 1959 20. Images Sun Ra and His Arkestra 1958 21. Under the Double Eagle Cowboy Roy Brown ca. 1958 22. Step it Up and Go Ike Everley (unknown date) 23. This is The End Buddy Guy 1958 24. Black Pearls John Coltrane 1958 25. Holiday Hill Wallace Waters 1958 26. Crossroads Paul Bley Don Cherry Ornette Coleman 1958 27. Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby Link Wray 1958 28. Old Time Religion Stovepipe 1960

Patty Duke died today. RIP. I think her hit "Please Don't Just Stand There" qualifies her for a place in the Artists forum. I remember when she followed Ed Asner as head of the actors' union.

No offense 🙊😁 .... btw could be Monty Waters .... or Steve Potts ....

....To American Music, 1900-1960. The project has evolved since I started the final mastering over the last few months. It covers, as I probably already mentioned, a broad range of the American vernacular. There is jazz, but not a lot, since I've already done a massive project in that direction (Devilin' Tune) - however, there is jazz, which serves in this set as a signpost. I need to do more presale, if anyone is interested. I have now priced the set, for this promotion as $135 conus, which includes shipping and the book I will be writing (hope to finish in 6 months). I need the presale in order to produce the CDs, which will be actual discs. Please let me know, message me here or at allenlowe5@gmail.com (which is also my paypal address). What we have so far: Vol. 1 1. Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose Ben Harney 1891 2.Every Day’ll Be Sunday Bye and Bye Standard Quartette 1894 or 1895 3. Down Yonder in the Cornfield The Diamond Four 1897 4. Poor Mourner Cousins and Demoss 1897 5. Eli Green’s Cake Walk J. Cullen and W. Collins 5/98 6. Old Black Joe Thomas Craig 1898 7. Roll on de Ground Billy Golden 1899 8. Climb De Golden Fence Len Spencer late 1890s 9. Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose Silas Leachman 1901 10. Whoa Dar Mule Silas Leachman 1901 11. My Little Zulu Babe Williams and Walker 1901 12. Creole Bells Metropolitan Orchestra ca. 1902 13. Mississippi River Song Tapioca Cantrell & Williams 10/2/02 14. Turkey in the Straw Billy Golden 1902 15. All Coons Look Alike to Me Arthur Collins 1902 16. You Been a Good Old Wagon Len Spencer 1902 17. Whistling Rufus Olly Oakley 3/12/03 18. Cakewalk Anonymous 1903 (NYC) 19. Nobody Bert Williams 1906 20. When You Ain’t Got No Money You Needn’t Come Around May Irwin 1907 21. Chicken Chowder Ossman/Duddley 7/06 22. Banjo Solo Bill Simons 1908 23. I Ain’t Had No Lovin’ In A Long Time Bob Roberts 1908 (Europe comp) 24. Arkansas Traveler 1908 Len Spencer ( 25. Rise and Shine Polk Miller and his Old South Quartette 12/09 26. Old Dog Tray Carroll Clark 1910 27. Camp Meeting Jubilee Male Quartette 1910 (rock and roll?) 28. De Devilin’ Tune Stella Mayhew 1911 29. Some of These Days Sophie Tucker 1911 30. Battle of San Juan Hill Mike Bernard 2/12/12 Volume 2 1. Florida rag Van Eps Trio 1912 2. Trinidad Paseo Lovey’s Trinidad String Band 6/20/12 3. Grizzly Bear Jack Charman 1912 (wr. Irving Berlin) 4. Land of Cotton The Hedges Brothers & Jacobson 1913 5. The Memphis Blues/Mr. Crump Prince’s Band 7/24/14 6. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny Alma Gluck 11/10/14 7. Swing Along Afro-American Folk Song Singers 1914 8. Good News Tuskegee Institute Singers 8/31/14 9. Castle House Rag James Europe Society Orch. 2/10/14 10. Breakin’ the Piano Veen Lawnhurst 1915 11. Exhortation The Right Quintette 12/24/15 12. I Ain’t Got Nobody Marion Harris 1916 13. Down Home Rag Wilbur Sweatman 12/16 14. Down Home Rag The Versatile Four 1916 15. Fuzzy Wuzzy Rag W.C. Handy’s Memphis Blues Band 9/21/17 16. Cute Little Wigglin’ Dance Frisco Jass Band 8/2/17 17. Some Jazz Blues Memphis Pickaninny Band, 1917 18. Iris Lionel Belasco’s Orchestra 9/27/18 19. Dallas Blues Wilbur Sweatman 7/10/18 20. Sensation Rag Original Dixieland Jazz Band 6/25/18 21. St. Louis Blues Al Bernard 1919 22. Go Down Moses Harry Burleigh 1919 23. River of Jordan Fisk University Jubilee Singers 12/21/20 24. I’m Wild About Moonshine Southern Negro Quartette 7/21 Volume 3 1. Baltimore Buzz Eubie Blake and His Shuffle Along Orch. 7/15/21 2. Goodnight Angeline Harmony Kings 1921 3. Daddy Won’t You Please Come Home Gertrude Saunders Tim Brym 5/21 4. Harlem Strut James P Johnson 1921 5. Ragtime Annie Eck Robertson 7/1/22 6. Ross’ Juba Black Face Eddie Ross 6/22 7. Kitchen Mechanic Blues Excelsior Quartette 3/22/22 8. Toot Toot Tootsie Al Jolson 9/11/22 9. The Christian Warfare 179 The Original Sacred Harp Choir 7/22 10. Teasin’ the Frets Nick Lucas 1922 11. Stars in a Velvety Sky Herbert L. Clarke and Orch 11/22 12. Couldn't Hear Nobody Praying Jubilee Quartette 1923 13. Elephant’s Wobble Bennie Moten Band 9/23 14. When You and I Were Young Maggie Fiddlin’ John Carson 11/8/23 15. Mother’s Religion Kentucky Trio 11/2/23 16. Mr. Crump Rag Jessie Crump 1923 17. My Soul is a Witness Paramount Jubilee Singers 11/23 18. My Way is Clouded Manhattan harmony Four 4/23 19. The Old hen cackled and the Rooster’s Gonna Crow Fiddlin’ John Carson 6/14/23 20. Guitar Rag Sylvester Weaver 11/2/23 21. Sly Mongoose Montrose String Orchestra 7/12/23 (Belasco piano) 22. Asheville Osey Helton 1924 23. I Can’t Use You Butterbeans and Susie 9/15/24 24. If You do What You Do Eddie Cantor and the Georgians 1/4/24 25. It Looks Like Rain Wendell Hall 1924 26. Old Liza Jane Uncle Am Stuart 6/24 Volume 4 1. The Waffleman’s Call Johnny Bayersdorffer 3/17/24 2. All Night Long Roba Stanley 12/24 3. The Pickanninnies’ Paradise Emmett 1924 4. Any Time Emmett Miller 10/25/24 5. Brother Noah Built an Ark Alf Taylor’s Old Limber Quartet 1924 6. Go ‘long Mule Ukulele Bob Williams 1924 7. big eyed rabbit Samantha Baumgarner Eva Davis 4/24 8. Blues Just Blues, That’s All Old Southern Jug Band 11/24/24 9. Chicago Flip Whistler & His Jug Band 9/25/24 10. Climb Up Them Golden Stairs Ernest Thompson 4/24 11. Cool Kind of Daddy Blues Anna Lee Chisholm (Lasky) 4/24 12. Cripple Creek & Sourwood Mountain Stovepipe #1 8/20/24 13. The Girl Slipped Down Dr. D.D. Hollis 6/24 14. He’s the Hottest Man in Town Cliff Edwards 10/24 15. Laughing Song The Seven Musical Magpies 1924 16. West Indies Blues Ukulele Bob Williams 1924 17. Hen Cackle Bill Chitwood and Bud Landress 11/20/24 18. Single Life Roba Stanley 7/5/25 19. Hand Me Down the Silver Trumpet Sunset Jubilee Quartet 4/25 20. Following the Cow Trail Carl T. Sprague 8/5/25 21. I Ain’t Got Nobody Bessie Smith 8/19/25 22. Last Train to Arkansas Al Bernard 1925 23. Piney Woods Girl Emmett Lundy & Ernest Stoneman 5/27/25 24. Shake That Thing Papa Charlie Jackson 5/25 25. Sweet Georgia Brown Ethel Waters 1925 Volume 5 1. On Jordan’s Stormy Banks We Stand Seventh Day Adventists’ Choir 1/3/26 2. Pilgrim’s Journey Homer Quincy Smith 12/26 3. Pratt City Blues Bertha Chippie Hill Louis Armstrong 11/23/26 4. Reign Massa Jesus Reign Wesley Female Quartet 6/26 5. Lovin’s Been Here and Gone To Mecca Flat Jimmy Blythe 5/26 6. The Sinless Summerland Ernest Stoneman 9/21/26 7. Pistol Pete’s Midnight Special Otto Gray’s Oklahoma Cowboys 5/26 8. Goin’ Back to Jericho Dock Walsh 8/17/26 9. Befo’ This Time Another Year Odette and Ethel 9/30/26 10. Candy Girl Uncle Bunt Stephens 5/29/26 11. The Cross-Eyed Butcher and the Cacklin’ Hen Uncle Dave Macon 9/9/26 12. Crucifixion Arizona Dranes 1926 13. Bristol Tennessee Al Hopkins and his Buckle Busters 10/22/26 14. Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray Evelyn Dove 1926 15. Buckdancer’s Choice Sam McGee 4/14/26 16. Down Hearted Blues Virginia Childs 11/3/26 17. Franklin Street Blues Sam McGee 4/14/26 18. I’ve Got A Ride to the Tree of Life Sister Sallie Sanders 11/1/26 19. In the Pines Doc Walsh 4/17/26 20. McKeon’s Reel Frank Quinn 1/26 21. Shine for Jesus Paradmount Ladies Four 11/26 22. Sleepy Time Gal Josephine Baker 1926 23. South Street Stomp South Street Trio 11/22/26 24. Rabbit Foot Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson 1926 25. Oh Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother Kelly Harrell 6/9/26 Volume 6 1. The Freight Wreck of Altoona Vernon Dalhart 2. Big Bend Gal Shelor Family 8/3/27 3. John Brown’s Dream DaCosta Woltz 5/27 4. Home Sweet Home Frank Jenkins 1927 5. I’m Comin’ Virginia Ethel Waters 9/18/26 6. There’s A City Built of Mansions Nugrape Twins 11/2/26 7. I Seen My Pretty Papa Standing on a Hill Eva Parker 12/18/26 8. The Crowing Rooster Walter Rhodes 12/10/27 9. Dixie Cowboy Aulton Ray ca. 4/26/27 10. Can’t Put a Bridle on that Mule This Morning Julius Daniels 10/24/27 11. Cluck Old Hen Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters 5/13/27 12. Come Let Us Eat Together Rev. ED Campbell and Congregation 2/26/27 13. Down Home Special Henry Johnson and His Boys 4/20/27 14. Baptist Shout Frank Jenkins 1926 15. Stack O’ Lee Blues Ma Rainey 1926 16. G Rag Georgia Yellow Hammers 8/9/27 17. Goodbye, I’ve Left the Word Behind Rev. T.T. Rose 8/27 18. Her Name was Hula Lou Carolina Tar Heels 2/19/27 19. Hesitation Blues Crying Sam Collins 9/17/27 20. Hide Away Oscar Ford 10/14/27 21. I Don’t Love Nobody Earl Johnson & His Dixies Entertainers 3/23/27 22. Your Enemy Cannot Harm You Rev. E.W. Clayborn 12/8/26 23. I Love My Mountain Home carolina tarheels 8/15/27 24. It’s a Good Thing Frank Stokes 1927 25. James Alley Blues Richard Rabbit Brown 3/11/27 Volume 7 1. Ash Can Stomp Perry and His Stomp Band 192 2. Bad Luck Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson 3. Beyond the River Carolina Gospel Singers 8/25/27 4. Cluck Old Hen Al Hopkins and Hus Buckle Busters 5/13/27 5. Cold Morning Shout South Street Trio 10/27/27 6. Country Blues Doc Boggs 3/10/27 7. Darling Cora BF Shelton 7/29/27 8. Deep Elm Willard Robson 10/27 9. Dixie Cowboy Aulton Ray 4/26/27 10. Hey Lawdy Mama Papa Harvey Hull and Long Cleve Reed 4/3/27 11. I’m Comin’ Virginia Bix Beiderbecke 1927 12. Leather Breeches Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers 10/2/27 13. Lonesome Road Blues Price Goodson/Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters 1927 14. Memphis Frolic Rag Williamson’s Beale Street Frolic Orchestra 2/27/27 15. The Moore Girl Andrew and Jim Baxter 8/2/27 16. Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose The South Georgia Highballers 10/5/27 17. Muddy Water Bing Crosby w/Paul Whiteman 1927 18. My Daddy’s Got a Brand New Way to Love Alberta Hunter 2/26/27 19. On the Banks of the Old Tennessee Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Baker 8/27 20. Red Onion Drag Louis Dumaine’s Jazzola 8 3/5/27 21. Riley the Furniture Man The Georgia Crackers 3/21/27 22. Sadie Lee Blues Peg Leg Howell 1927 23. See That My Grave is Kept Clean Bela Lam & The Greene County Singers 7/28/27 24. Though Your Sins Be Scarlet Williams & Williams 3/29/27 25. Train on the Island J.P. Nestor & Norman Edmonds 9/26/27 Volume 8 1. Come Let Us Eat Together - Rev. E.D. Campbell And Congregation '27 2. Come Down Jailor With the Keys Williams Black Patti Jubilee Singers 7/21/27 3. Boll Weevil Rabbit’s Foot Williams 1927 4. Chicago Stomp Down Duke Ellington 11/3/27 5. Don’t Let Your Head Hand Down Leecan & Cooksey 1927 6. Hot Dog Blind Lemon Jefferson 1927 7. Damfino Stomp Sylvester Weaver 4/12/27 8. He Rose from the Dead Blind Lemon Jefferson 6/27 9. Hallelujah Cotton Belt Quartet 1927 10. I Believe I’ll Go Back Home William and Versey Smith 1927 11. If I Had My Way T.T. Rose and Gospel Singers 1927 12. It All Belongs to Me Ruth Etting 8/30/27 13. Jack Of Diamonds Ben Jarrell 5/27 14. Madison Rag Gus Cannon 1927 15. Mistreatin’ Mama Rabbit’s Foot Williams 3/31/27 16. Rocking Chair Blues Original Louisville Jug band 3/30/27 yodel at 1:00 17. Sugar Blackbirds of Paradise 7/9/27 18. Twill Be All Glory Over There The Deal Family 11/5/27 19. Traveling Coon Luke Jordan 8/16/27 20. Vol Stevens’ Blues Vol Stevens 10/20/27 21. We Are Journeying On Price Family Sacred Singers 3/22/27 22. Woke up With the Blues in My Fingers Lonnie Johnson 5/2/27 23. Will My Mother Know Me There L.V. Jones and His Virginia Singing Class 9/27/27 24. Georgia Stomp Andrew & Jim Baxter 1928 25. Ham Beats All Meat Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters 3/3/28 26. Don’t Speak to Me Lottie Kimbrough 1928 Volume 9 1. Canned Heat Blues Tommy Johnson 8/31/28 2. Don’t get One Woman on Your Mind Willard Hodgin 1927 or 1928 3. He’s the lily of The Valley Texas Jubilee singers 12/8/28 4. Alabama Jubilee Bill Helms and and His Upson County band 2/3/28 5. Alabama Strut Cow Cow Davenport 7/16/28 6. Blue Coat Blues T.C. Johnson Tom Nelson 1928 7. Candy Man Blues Mississippi John Hurt 12/28/28 8. Come Over Here Elder R. Bryant 2/28/28 9. Cumberland Gap Frank Hutchison 1928 10. I’m Gonna Run to the City of Refuge Blind Willie Johnson 12/5/28 11. Left Alone Blues Ishman Bracey 1928 12. Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane Uncle John Scruggs 11/8/28 13. In the Mornin’ Johnson, Nelson, Porkchop 2/17/28 14. Johnson City Blues Clarence Green 10/15/28 15. Lindy Proximity Quartet 16. Take Me Back Frank Stokes 8/30/28 17. Tom Cat Blues Otto Gray's Oklahoma Cowboys 9/28 18. Too Tight Blues #2 Blind Blake 8/17/28 19. Touch Me Light Mama George Bullet Williams 1928 20. Travelin’ Man Albert Hunt’s Texas ramblers 3/8/28 21. Up in Glory Dr. Smith 9/12/28 22. Groundhog Jack Reedy & His Walker Mountain String Band 2/28 (bluegrass) 23. A Little talk with Jesus Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Quartet 10/30/28 24. See that My Grave is kept Clean Blind Lemon Jefferson 2/28 25. Goin’ Up Town Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters 3/3/28 Volume 10 1. I Surely Understand that You Love Another Man Shortbuckle Roark and Family 1928 2. Shake it Down Lillian Glinn 4/28 3. Shrimp Man Moses Mason 1/28 4. Cryin’ for You Sammy Hill 1929 5. Ha Ha Blues Rosie Mae Moore 2/3/28 6. Ida Red Tweedy Brothers 3/28 7. In the Mornin’ Johnson, Nelson, Porkchop 2/17/28 8. These bones Gwine Rise Again Rutherford & Foster 4/10/29 9. Shine on Me Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers 10/29/28 10. Sister Maude Mule Alec Johnson 11/2/28 11. Skip the Gutter Louis Armstrong Earl Hines 6/27/28 12. Stealin’ Stealin’ Memphis Jug Band 9/15/28 13. Steamboat Man Roy Harvey 10/18/28 14. Old Country Stomp Henry Thomas 6/13/28 15. Papa’s ‘Bout to Get Mad Pink Anderson/Simmie Dooley 4/14/28 16. Poor Boy Gus Cannon 1928 17. San Tub Jug Washboard Band 1928 18. How Much Can I Stand? Gladys Bentley 11/15/28 19. Sunshine Special Frenchy’s String Band 12/25/28 20. I Ain’t Got Nobody Sophie Tucker 1928 21. I’ve Always Been A Rambler Grayson & Whittier 7/31/28 22. Trinity River Texas Tommy 10/28 23. Turkey Buzzard Blues Peg Leg Howell and Eddie Anthony 10/30/28 24. Wagoner’s Lad Buel Kazee 1/18/28 25. I Would If I Could Al Miller 12/28 Volume 11 1. If You Want the Rainbow Lee Morse 11/3/28 2. Lafayette Joseph Falcon 4/27/28 3. Vacation in Heaven Missionary Josephine Miles& Sister Elizabeth Cooper 5/15/28 4. Lay Down Baby, Take Your Rest carolina tarheels 10/11/28 5. Little David Play on Your Harp Joe Reed Family 6/28 6. King of Kings Rev. Johnny Blakey (Bessie Johnson) 12/6/28 7. Mississippi Jailhouse Groan Rube Lacy 3/28 8. Mill Man Blues Billy Bird 1928 9. Nobody Loves me Hershel Brown & His Washboard Band 2/24/28 10. How Long is that Train Been Gone? Roy Evans 6-18-28 11. Palolo Charlie Wilson 1928 12. Kiss Me Quick Georgia Yellow Hammers 10/18/28 13. Went Up in the Clouds of Heaven Ernest Phipps& His Holiness Singers 10/29/29 14. When I Woke Up This Morning She Was Gone Jim Jackson 8/27/28 15. When the Gates Bush 4/26/28 16. Wire Grass Drag Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers 8/9/28 17. Yes I Know Rev. Calbert and Sister Billie Holstein 2/28 18. You’re Going to Leave the Old Home Jim Eva Parker 11/27/28 19. Back in the Alley Cow Cow Davenport 5/1/29 20. Blue Ridge Rambler's Rag H.M. Barnes' Blue Ridge Ramblers 1/28/29 21. Callahan Rag Roane Country Ramblers 10/21/29 22. Careless Love Slim Barton and Eddie Mapp 1929 23. The Cat’s Got The Measles Walter Smith 3/20/29 24. Cairo Blues Henry Spaulding 5/9/29 25. The Girl I Love She’s Got Long Curly Hair 9/24/29 26. Bathe in the Beautiful Pool Doc Walsh 9/25/29 Volume 12 1. I Wish That Gal Was Mine Hershel Brown & His Washboard Band 8/06/28 2. Alabama Breakdown Hershel Brown & His Happy Five 3/19/29 3. Get Up Off That Jazzophone the Bubbling Over Five 10/13/29 4. Give the World a Smile The Corley Family 12/4/29 5. Head Rag Hop Romeo Nelson 9/5/29 6. I’m Goin’ Up The Country Papa Eggshell 5/7/29 7. Jonestown Blues Gus Cannon (Banjo Joe) 11/27 8. Elder Green Blues Charlie Patton 10/29 9. Little Bessie Darby & Tarlton 10/31/29 10. Three in One Two Step East Texas Serenaders 10/27/29 11. Augusta Rag Melvin Dupree 4/2/29 12. Louisiana Glide Blind Leroy Garnett 10/12/29 13. Mississippi Bottom Blues Kid Bailey 9/25/29 14. Mon Chere Bebe Creole Dennis McGee 3/29 15. Mule Skinner Moan Ben Covington 1929 16. My Sportin’ Man Mamie Smith 1929 17. No 29 Wesley Wallace 1929 18. Roll and Tumble Blues Hambone Willie Newbern 3/14/29 19. Tom Brown Sits In His Prison Cell Luke Jordan 11/19/29 20. The Train’s Done Left Me (60s FOLK) carolina tarheels 4/3/29 21. Turn Away Lubbock texas Quartet 12/6/29 22. A Precious Sweetheart from Me Has Gone Dock Walsh 9/25/29 23. Rambling Lover Dick Rheinhart 10/27/29 24. Riffs James P. Johnson 1/29/29 25. Roving Cowboy Frank Jenkins 1929 26. Aunt Jemimah Stomp Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers 3/15/29 Volume 13 1. I Ain’t Got Nobody Louis Armstrong 12/10/29 2. I Got a Gal James Cole’s String Band 6/25/28 3. I Never Told a Lie Memphis Minnie Joe McCoy 5/29/30 4. I Want Someone to Love Me Tommy Johnson 12/29 5. Little Sadie Clarence Ashley 1929 6. My Kinda Love Bing Crosby 3/14/29 7. My Loved Ones Are Waiting Carolina Ladies Quartette 1929 8. Naptown Special Herve Duerson 8/28/29 9. Stone Mountain Rag Roanoke Jug Band 10/18/29 10. Sugar Blues Coley Jones and the Dallas String Band 12/6/29 11. Sur Le Chemin Chez Moi Soileau Couzens 11/7/29 12. What Wouldn’t I Do For That Man Anette Hanshaw 9/16/29 13. Don’t Put That Thing On Me Cliff Gibson 1929 14. Way Down in Arkansas Hambone Willie Newbern 3/14/29 15. Sweet Milk and Peaches Narmour & Smith 9/25/29 16. Oh What A Change Megginson Female Quartet ca. 1929 17. What Kind of Shoes You Gwine to Wear? William Rexroat’s Cedar Singer 1/8/29 18. Old Joe Clark Bradley Kincaid 10/8/30 19. Doggone That Train Jimmie Davis 1930 20. Dollar Bill Blues Charley Jordan 6/30 21. Don’t Think I’m Santa Claus Lil McLintock 12/4/30 22. Husking Bee The Yellow Jackets 7/28/30 23. I’ll Take It Now Pigmeat Pete and Wesley Wilson 1930 24. I’ll Play My Harp in Beulah Land Brothers Wright and Williams 12/9/30 25. Heat It Frankie Half Pint Jackson Tampa Read Georgia Tom Dorsey 6/11/29 Volume 14 1. Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party 8/29/30 2. Bake That Chicken Pie Jackson County Barn Owls 5/17/30 3. Bring It With You When You Come Cannon’s Jug Stompers 11/24/30 4. Buy a Half Pint and Stay in the Wagon Earl Johnson 12/3/30 5. Day is Past Primitive Baptist Choir 3/25/30 6. Dollar Bill Charley Jordan 6/30 7. Don’t Think I’m Santa Claus Lil McClintock 12/4/30 8. Eight of January Ted Gossett’s Band 9/16/30 9. Fare Thee Well Blues Joe Callicott 1930 10. Georgia Wobble Blues Carroll County Revelers 3/21/30 11. Give Us Another Jug Piano Kid Edwards 12/30 12. Grandma’s Farm Big Bill Broonzy 4/9/30 13. I Know My Time Ain’t Long Delta Big Four 5/25/30 14. I’m On My Way Kentucky Holiness Singers 3/28/30 15. I’ve Grown So Used to You Mcfarland and Gardner 4/3/30 16. In the Jailhouse Now Jimmie Rodgers 7/12/30 17. Jackson Stomp Mississippi Mud Stepper 12/15/30 18. Kentucky Blues Little Hat Jones 1930 19. Knox County Stomp Tennessee Chocolate Drops 4/3/30 20. Last Kind Words Blues Geeshie Wiley 1930 21. Let Your Light Shine for Jesus Rev. J.L. Hendrix 10/27/30 22. Lorena Blue Ridge Mountain Singers 4/21/30 23. Man Trouble Blues Jaybird Coleman 1930 24. Mississippi Farm County Blues Son House 5/28/30 25. Sister Mary Wore Three Lengths of Chain Slim Duckett and Pig Norwood 12/16/30 Volume 15 1. That Too, Do Bennie Moten Orch. Jimmy Rushing 10/28/30 2. South Carolina Rag William Walker 12/6/30 3. Speckled Red’s Blues Speckled Red 4/8/30 4. Sweet Sixteen Charlie Poole 1/23/30 5. Tallahatchie River Blues Mattie Delaney 2/21/30 6. This Song of Love Middle Georgia Singing Convention 12/10/30 7. Vicksburg Stomp Mississippi Mud Stepper 12/15/30 8. Walkin’ Cane Stomp Kentucky Jug Band ******WESTERN SWING 8/30 9. Walking With My King Middle Georgia Singing Convention 12/10/30 10. The Whole World In His Hands Bessie Johnson 3/21/29 11. Your Low Down Ways Carolina Tarheels 11/19/30 12. Abrew’s Portuguese Jazz Abrew’s Portuguese Instrumental Trio 2/16/31 13. Atlanta Bound gene Autry 10/29/31 14. Bedside Blues Jim Thompkins 2/21/31 15. Darn Good Girl Buster Carter Preston Young 6/26/31 16. My Good Gal’s Gone Jimmie Rodgers 1931 17. Old Hen Cackle The Two Poor Boys Joe Evans and Arthur McClain 5/20/31 18. 4 O’Clock Blues Skip James 1931 19. Get Your head in Here Three ‘Baccer tags 5/29/31 20. Greenville Strut Stovepipe and Sarah 1931 21. I’ll Lead a Christian Life Golden P. Harris 3/19/31 22. It’s Hard to Love and Can’t Be Loved Buster Carter & Preston Young 6/26/31 23. Molly Put the kettle On The Skillet Lickers 10/24/31 24. Pick Poor Robin Clean Geeshie Wiley 1931 25. Please Don’t Wake it Up Mississippi Sheiks 10/24/31 Volume 16 1. Poor Jane Blues Jack Gowdlock 5/29/31 2. Reaching for the Moon Roy Smeck Trio 1931 3. Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms Buster Carter Preston Young 1931 4. Shout You Cats Hezekiah Jenkins 1/16/31 5. Swing Low Sweet Chariot 1931 Jules Bledsoe 1931 6. Take A Look at That Baby The Two Poor Boys Joe Evans and Arthur McClain 5/20/31 7. Try And Treat Her Right Ben Ferguson 6/16/31 8. Clanka A Lanka (Sleep on Mother) Famous Bluejay Singers of Birmingham 1/32 (LEAD!) 9. Gone Dead Train King Solomon Hill 1932 10. Hallelujah Side Tindley Quaker City Gospel Singers 3/8/32 11. The Laffing Rag Ben Curry 1/32 12. Long Tall Mama Big Bill Broonzy 3/30/32 13. Na Pua O Hawaii George Ku Trio 1932 14. Preacher Blues Henry Brown 1932 15. Sally Gooden W.M. Smith 10/1/32 16. Cold Iron Bed Jack Kelly and his South Memphis Jug Band 8/1/33 17. Miss Handy Hanks Archie Lewis 3/30/33 18. Ladies Quadrille The Happy Hayseeds 3/4/30 19. Market Street Stomp Frank Melrose 4/9/30 20. Deep Elm Blues The Lone Star Cowboys 8/4/33 21. Go ‘Long Mule Louisiana Lou 12/4/33 22. Hambone Am Sweet Southern Singers 2/23/33 23. I’ve Got the Big River Blues Delmore Brothers 12/6/33 24. Just Because the Lone Star Cowboys 8/5/33 25. Tampa Strut the Georgia Browns 1/19/33 Volume 17 1. Go Down Old Hannah Iron Head Baker and others 1933 2. Wait for Me Harold and Hazel 1933 3. Western Cowboy Huddle Ledbetter 16-20 July 1933 4. Sunset Amede Ardoin and Dennis McGee 1934 5. Ted’s Stomp Louie Bluie and Ted Bogan 3/25/34 black country 6. Throw Me In the Alley Peetie Wheatstraw And His Blue Blowers 8/24/34 7. After You’ve Gone Art Tatum 8/24/34 8. Cacklin’ Hen Blind Pete and Partner 9/27/34 9. I Believe I’ll Make a Change Leroy Carr Scrapper Blackwell 8/16/34 10. I Feel Like Dyin’ in this Army Austin Coleman, Joe Washington, & Group 7/34 11. I’m Walkin’ This Town The Spirits of Rhythm 9/4/34 12. J'Ai Fair Tout Le Tour Du Pays Jimmy Peters and the Ring Dance Singers 6/34 13. Little Liza Jane Wilson Stavin’ Chain Jones & Group 6/34 14. Le Blues Du Petite Chien Breaux Freres 10/9/34 15. Matchbox Blues Larry Hensley 1/25/34 16. Moon Country Hoagy Carmichael 3/9/34 (tommy Dorsey trumpet) 17. My Good Gal Has Thrown Me Down Homer Callahan 8/17/34 18. My Soul is a Witness Austin Coleman Joe Washington Brown, Group ca. 7/34 19. St. Louis Blues Cliff Edwards 10/19/34 20. How You Want Your Rollin’ Done Louis Lasky 4/2/35 21. I’m Troubled in Mind Southern University Quartet 1/22/35 22. Stack O’ Lee Blues King, Queen, and Jack 1935 23. Sugar Babe High and Shug’s Radio Pals 7/16/37 24. My Man’s Gone Now (Porgy and Bess) Ruby Elzy 1935 25. Sunshine Alley Stuart Hamblen 2/25/35 26. Field Mouse Stomp Minnie Wallace and her Night Hawks 1935 Volume 18 1. I’m Sitting on Top of the World The Shelton Brothers 12/19/35 2. Old Time Blues Carl Martin 7/27/35 3. Po' Laz'us Booker T. Sapps Roger Matthews 6_35 4. Podunk Toddle The Freeny Harmonizers 10/20/35 5. Baby Please Don’t Go Big Joe Williams 10/31/35 6. Coquette Boots and His Buddies 8/14/35 7. Les Bleues De Bosco Fats’ Raybo Ramblers, 8/10/35 8. Elm Street Woman Blues Dallas Jamboree Jug Band 9/20/35 9. Fiddler’s Dream Arthur Smith 1/22/35 10. Down by the Ohio Milton Brown and his Brownies 1/35 11. Magnolia Waltz Cherokee Ramblers 7/11/35 12. You Got To Go Down Blind Gary Davis 7/26/35 13. Shoeshine Boy Lester Young/Clayton/Basie/Page/Jo Jones 10/9/36 14. Somebody’s Been Using that Thing Callahan Brothers 12/22/36 15. Moonglow Mississippi Mud Mashers 1/21/35 16. Anytime Emmett Miller 9-1-36 17. What's the Matter Now? Lawrence Walker 1936 18. Blues in the Bottle Jimmy Revard and his Ok. Playboys 10-26-36 19. Farrish Street Jive Little Brother Montgomery 10/16/36 20. Give Me My Money Blue RIdge Playboys 11/36 21. Honky Tonk Train Meade Lux Lewis 5/7/36 22. Hittin’ The Bottle Stomp Mississippi Jook Band 1/20/36 23. Cripple Creek Jimmy Strothers 6/14/36 24. Guess who’s in town Bill Boyd cowboy ramblers 10/27/36 25. Last Fair Deal Gone Down Robert Johnson 11/27/36 26. Mayflower Stripling Brothers 3/12/36 (folk rag?) Volume 19 1. Mama Let Me Lay It On You 2/8/36 2. New Jelly Roll Blues Al Dexter 11/28/36 3. New River Train Monroe Brothers 2/17/36 4. Oh Lord, Don’t ‘low Me to Beat Em Willie Williams 1936 5. Soap Box Blue Jack Pierce (Slim Mays) 9/36 6. Watermelon on the Vine J.E. Mainer’s Mountaineers 6/15/36 7. Weave Room Blues The Dixon Brothers 2/12/36 8. Never No Mo’ Blues The Rhythm Wreckers 1937 9. One More River Sons of the Pioneers 12/14/37 10. Porquoi Que tu Laise Moi Clifford Breaux 2/15/37 11. Stay out of the South LC Doughboys 6/20/37 12. Sugar Babe High and Shug’s Radio Pals 7/16/37 13. Bell Clappin’ Mama Bill Carlisle 2/16/37 14. East Texas Drag East Texas Serenaders 2/20/37 15. Everybody’s Truckin’ Smokey Wood 3/1/37 16. I’m Moaning All Day For You Five Jinks 2/20/37 17. Moten Swing Carolina Cotton Pickers 3/24/37 18. Frankie and Johnny Alabama Boys 1937 19. Glory in the Meeting House Luther Strong1937 20. Golden Gate Gospel Train Golden Gate Quartet 8/7/37 21. John’s Idea Count Basie 7/7/37 22. She's Selling what She Used to Give Away Buddy Jones 9/21/38 23. Just Dream of You Norfolk Jazz Quarter 7/16/37 24. Knocking on the Hen House Door Lester ‘Pete’ Bivins 2/20/37 25. Little Maggie Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris 8/2/37 26. Milk Cow Blues Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers 2-5-37 27. Old Dad John Rector 1937 28. Coal Creek March Pete Steele 3/29/38 29. Cowboy Rhythm Patsy Montana 2/17/38 Volume 20 1. Fiddle and Guitar Running Wild Walter Hurdt 9/29/38 2. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Adelaide Hall Fats Waller 8/28/38 3. Jivin’ Woman Blues Blind Boy Fuller 1938 4. Katie Dear The Blue Sky Boys 1/25/38 5. Memphis Blues the Nite Owls 1938 6. Mitchell Blues Wade Mainer 1938 7. Mollie Married A Travelin’ Man J.H. Howell 1/29/38 8. Pray for the Lights to Go Out Bob Wills 5/16/38 9. Sewing on the Mountain Coon Creek Girls 1938 10. St. Louis Stomp Speckled Red 12/17/38 11. Tiger Rag Jelly Roll Morton 1938 12. When the Sun is Setting on the Prairie Roy Rogers 13. Your Soul Never Dies Smith’s Carolina Crackerjacks 9/29/38 14. De Blind Man Stood on De Road and Cried Morris Brown Quartet 8/23/39 15. Down the Line Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1939 16. Orange Blossom Special Roy Hall and His Blue Ridge Entertainers 11/7/38 17. Footprints in the Snow Cliff Carlisle 1939 18. Headin’ for Texas and Home Roy Rogers/Sons of Pioneers 4/18/39 19. I’m Not Angry With You Darling Four Picked Pepper 8/22/39 20. Farther Along Pine Ridge Boys 8/22/39 21. Matzoh Balls Slim Gaillard 10/11/39 22. Hear De Lambs/Plenty Good Room Roland Hayes 1939 23. Plantation Blues The Sons of the Ozarks 12/8/39 24. Streamline Train Cripple Clarence Lofton 1939 25. Tu Peus Pas Me Fair Ca Alley Boys of Abbeville 6/30/39 26. Up Jumped the Devil Byron Parker and his Mountaineers, Snuffy Jenkins 2/9/40 27. Walk Around The Soul Stirrers 1939 Volume 21 1. I’d Rather Drink Muddy Water The Cats and the Fiddle 6/27/39 2. I’ll Get Mine in the Bye and Bye Buddy Jones Bob Dunn 3/4/39 3. Six White Horses Bill Monroe 10/7/40 4. Moten Swing Charlie Parker with Jay McShann 11/30/40 5. Gonna Ride ‘til the Sun Goes Down Johnny Barefield 2/5/40 6. I’m Through With You Big Joe and His Washboard Band 12/17/40 7. Key to the Highway Jazz Gillum 1940 8. Koko Duke Ellington 11/7/40 9. Laughing at Life Lewis Bronzeville Five 4/11/40 10. Muleskinner Blues Bill Monroe 10/7/40 11. Nobody’s Business Riley Puckett 10/11/40 12. A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ But a Bird Louis Jordan 9/30/40 13. Yancey’s Bugle Call Jimmy Yancey 9/6/40 14. Nice Work If You Can Get It (Excerpt) Thelonious Monk Minton’s 5/41 15. I Never Loved But One The Carter Family 1941 16. Catfish Blues Robert Petway 4/28/41 17. Gallows Pole Leadbelly 1941 18. House of the Rising Sun Alamanac Singers (Seeger/Guthrie) 7/41 19. Mama Knows What Papa Wants Georgia White 3/41 20. I’m Gonna Lift Up a Standard for My King Church of God in Christ 8/41 21. Old Ship of Zion Paramount Juniors 11/10/41 22. Slewfoot on the Levee Light Crust Doughboys (Zeke Campbell) 2/27/41 23. Worried Life Blues Big Maceo 6/24/41 24. Stand By Me Sister Rosetta Tharpe 3/41 25. Why Don’t You Do Right? Lil Green 4/23/41 26. You Got To Roll David Honeyboy Edwards 7/42 27. You Got To Take Sick and Die Some of These Days Muddy Water 7/42 28. Eighth of January Nathan Frazier & Frank Patterson 3/42 29. Blues Trip Me This Morning Tommy McLennan 2/20/42 Volume 22 1. Born To Lose Ted Daffan 2/20/42 2. I Be Bound to Write To You Muddy Waters 7/24/42 3. Joe Turner Blues Son Simms 4 (Muddy Water) 7/24/42 4. Mean Old World T. Bone Walker 7/31/42 5. Missionary Sermon J.H. Terrell 7/23/42 6. Soon in the Mornin’ Sid Hemphill 8/15/42 7. I’m a Soldier in the Army of the Lord Rev. McGhee 7/42 8. Stormy Weather Ethel Waters 10/42 9. Walking the Floor Over You Ernest Tubb 1942 10. Tall Skinny Poppa Sister Rosetta Tharpe 11. Trouble Trouble Betty Roche 1943 12. West Kinney Street Blues Skoodle-Dum-Do and Sheffield 11/6/43 13. I Want Two Wings Utah Smith 1944 14. Downhearted Blues Miss Rhapsody (Viola Wells) 11/21/44 15. East of the Sun Sarah Vaughan Dizzy Gillespie 12/31/44 16. God’s Mighty Hand Utah Smith 1944 17. That’s the Stuff Sonny Terry Brownie McGhee 12/12/44 18. Remember Me T. Texas Tyler 1945 19. Shaw ‘Nuff Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie Al Haig 1945 20. Tent Show Rag Brun Campbell 1940s 21. The Honeydripper Part 1. Joe Liggins 1945 22. What Is This Thing Called Love? Lenny Tristano 1945 23. At the End of the Trail Blackwood Brothers Quartet 1940s 24. Indiana Don Byas Slam Stewart 1945 25. Coquette Leo Watson 1/24/45 26. I’ll Remember You Cecil Gant 1945 Volume 23 1. Don’t You Lie to Me Texas Ruby 1945 2. Love Me Or Leave Me Kay Starr 1945 3. Across the Sea Gribble, Lusk, York 9/46 4. Empty Bed Blues Ivy Anderson 10/46 5. I’m Talkin’ About You Bob Wills Junior Bernard 1946 6. Railroad Bill Hobart Smith 1946 7. The Reefer No. Jo Jo Adams 6/11/46 8. Trouble in Mind Tex Ritter 12/11/46 9. What’s New? June Christy 1/46 10. You Won’t Let Me Go Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers 1946 11. Pigmeat Strut Merle Travis 4/8/46 12. Did You Ever Try to Cry? Gatemouth Moore 12/26/47 13. I Just Keep Lovin’ Her Little Walter & Othum Brown 1947 14. It Never Entered My Mind Frank Sinatra 11/5/47 15. Milk Cow Blues Maddox Brothers and Rose 1947 16. New Mississippi River Blues York Brothers 9/1/47 17. Nobody In Mind Joe Turner 11/29/47 18. Placetas Chano Pozo and Orch -2/4/47 19. Sad and Disappointed Big Maybelle 12/47 20. Too Many Blues Bill Nettles 1947 21. Weird Lullaby Babs Gonzales 5/47 22. Unloved and Unclaimed Roy Acuff 11/19/47 23. Forgive Me Manny Nichols 1949 24. Life is a Problem Sister O.M. Terrell 1948 25. It’s Too Soon to Know The Orioles 1948 26. Stand By Me Sister Matthews 1948 27. Milk ‘em in the Morning Blues Tennessee Ernie Ford 1948 Volume 24 1. Grievin' Blues John Lee Hooker 1948 2. What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? Lily Brothers 1948 3. Fast Train Through Arkansas Wayne Raney 1948 4. Hallelujah We Shall Rise Sauceman Brothers late 1940s 5. Hard Times Will Soon Be Over Blue Ridge Quartet 1948 6. Little David Play on Your Harp Merle Travis 3/20/48 7. Lost on the River Hank Williams 1948 8. Goin’ to Virginia Ralph Willis 6/8/48 9. God Don’t Like It Elder A. Johnson ca. 1948 10. There is Another Mule in Your Stall Nellie Lutcher – 1948 11. What You Gonna Do Cavalry Quartet 1948 12. I’m Wondering and Wondering Ray Charles 1948 13. Lord Will Make a Way Elder A. Johnson ca. 1948 14. All Night Long Homer and Jethro 1948 15. Looking for a Woman Roy Brown 1948 16. We Will Know Roy Lanham and his Gospel Quartet 1948 17. Yodel Your Blues Away Bill Haley 1949 18. Night Watchman Blues Memphis Minnie 1949 (scream 1:36) 19. Poor Ellen Smith Molly O’Day 4/4/49 20. Prelude to a Nighmare Babs Gonzales 3/11/49 21. Sweet Georgia Brown Bud Powell 22. When Your Lover Has Gone Julia Lee 1949 23. Where the Sun Never Goes Down Willie Mae Williams 10/29/49 24. Cabin in Caroline Flatt and Scruggs 1949 25. Cuttin’ Out Annie Laurie 1949 26. Dallas Blues Floyd Dixon 1949 27. I Got to Cross the River Jordan Blind Willie McTell 1949 Volume 25 1. Hey Little Girl Professor Longhair 1949 2. I Almost Lost My Mind Ivory Joe Hunter 10/21/49 3. Trixie Curley Weaver 1949 4. Baby Don’t You Want to Go Dan Pickett 1949 (Scotty Moore) 5. For Old Times Sake Johnny and Jack 1949 6. Goin’ Back Home Dennis McMillon 8/49 7. I Ain't Got Nobody Peggy Lee 1949 8. I Wonder John Lee Hooker 1949 9. Baby Shame on You Wynonie Harris 10/19/49 10. In the Middle of the Night Amos Milburn 1949 11. Joe Turner Link Davis 1949 12. Jumpin’ At the Jubilee Joe Turner ca. 1949 13. Lou, Cindy Lou Walter Brown 10/31/49 14. In the Jailhouse Webb Pierce 1950 15. All In Down and Out Blues Uncle Dave Macon 1950 16. Release Me Eddie Miller 1950 17. Louisiana Blues Muddy Waters 1950 18. The Letter Harry Partch 1950 19. My Baby Left Me Arthur Crudup 11/8/50 20. The Tree of Life is Waiting for Me Prophet Powers 1950 21. Joliet Blues Johnny Shines 10/23/1950 22. Love Her With A Feeling Tampa Red 7/3/50 23. Muskadine Blues Little Walter 1950 24. Pan American Boogie Delmore Brothers 1950 25. Rollin’ and Tumblin’ Part 1 Little Walter Muddy Waters Leroy Foster 1/50 26. Take Out Some Time Miss Sharecropper (Laverne Baker) 1950 27. Soony Roony (Song of Yxabat) Slim Gaillard and His Peruvians 3/5/51 28. Rockin’ With Red Piano Red 1950 Volume 26 1. I’ll Drown in My Own Tears Lula Reed 1951 2. I’ve Got Mine Pink Anderson 5/29/50 3. You’ve Gotta Lay Down Momma Johnny Beck 1950 4. Crying at Daybreak Howlin’ Wolf 1951 5. Travelin’ Blues Left Frizzell 6/1/51 6. Trouble in Mind Jerry Irby 1951 7. Walkin’ on Top of the World Peck Touchton 1951 8. Please Tell Me Baby Varetta Dillard 1/22/51 9. Wrong Road Blues Tommy Duncan 1951 10. She Done Moved Harmonica Frank 1951 11. Every Day Will Be Sunday By and By Dorothy Love Coates & the Orig. Gospel Harmonettes 7/5/51 12. Big Mama Blues Jimmy Murphy 1951 13. Black Gal Walter Horton 6/51 14. By and By Sister Jessie Mae Renfro 1951 15. Goin’ Away Walkin’ Harmonica Frank 1951 16. Good Lovin’ H Bomb Ferguson 12/12/51 17. Hi Tone Poppa Tillman Franks 1951 18. Don’t Jive Me Smiley Lews 4/51 19. Juiced Billy Love 6/51 20. Lone Town Blues Junior Brooks 1951 21. I Wanna Be Mama’d Jimmy Logsdon 1951 22. You Go To My Head Bob Graettinger Stand Kenton 9/15/52 23. Sparrow in the Barrel Johnny Sparrow 1952 24. Strange Things Henry Green 3/52 25. Take a Little Walk With Me Boyd Gilmore 1/23/52 26. Twice the Lovin’ (In Half the Time) Jean Shepard 1952 27. Walked All Night Charlie Booker 1952 28. Monkey Motion Houston Boines 1952 Volume 27 1. Please Find My Baby Elmore James 1/52 2. Reeling and Rocking Fats Domino 1/52 3. River’s Invitation Percy Mayfield 1/22/52 4. Satisfied Blue Ridge Quartet 1952 5. Fine Looking Woman BB King 1952 6. It Wasn’t God Who Make Honky Tonk Angels Rosalie Allen 7/52 7. Long Time No See Frank Hunter and his Black Mountain Boys 1952 8. I Was Praying Five Blind Boys of Mississippi 1952 9. I’m in the Mood for Love Doris Day 1952 10. Let Your Tears Fall Baby Big Mama Thornton 1952 11. Maggie Campbell Robert Nighthawk 10/25/52 12. Me and the Devil Rev. Chambers 1952 13. Have Mercy Baby Billy Ward & His Dominos (McPhatter) 1952 14. Holsten Valley Breakdown Ronnie Knittel and the Holsten Valley Ramblers Early 1950s 15. Dream Girl Jesse Belvin 1952 16. Easy Easy Baby Varetta Dillard 5/6/52 17. Goin’ Down Slow Billy Wright 10/8/52 18. Ain’t a Bump in the Road Roy Hogsed 11/17/52 19. Ain’t No More Texas Melody Boys early 1950s 20. Body and Soul Eddie Jefferson 7/11/52 21. Baby I'm Coming Home Charlie Booker 1952 22. Blue Midnight Little Walter 1952 LISTEN AT !:45+ 23. Crying Blue Smitty and his String Men 7/11/52 24. Darling Brown Eyes Church Brothers ca. 1950 25. Dial 110 Blues Country Jim Bledsoe 1952 26. Better Late Than Never Buster Pack and His Lonesome Pine Boys 1952 27. Catfish Blues Bobo Thomas Sonny Boy Williamson 7/52 28. Zindy Lou The Chimes 1953 29. There is Only One Four Leaf Clover Quartet 1953 Volume 28 1. Tran La Ezy The Musical Four Plus One early 1950s 2. The Story of My Life Guitar Slim 10/26/53 3. The Gypsy Louis Armstrong 10/22/53 4. She's All Right Muddy Waters 9/24/53 5. Just Can’t Stay Willie Nix 1953 6. Tempus Fugit Miles Davis 1953 7. A Million Mistakes Claude King 1953 8. My Baby Left Me Big Boy Spires 1/17/53 9. No Shoes Eddie Kirkland 1953 10. Old Grey Goose Red Belcher and the Kentucky Ridgerunners Early 1950s 11. Rock Me Lucky Joe Almond 1953 12. Saving My Love for You Johnny Ace 12/53 13. Arkansas Traveler Jimmy Bryant Speed West 12/8/53 14. Bye and Bye Bob Angliano Quartet 1953 15. Descent Into the Maelstrom Lenny Tristano 1953 16. Diggin’ My Potatoes Washboard Sam Bill Broonzy 1953 17. Feelin’ Bad Junior Parker 10/53 18. Grande Nuit Especial Iry LeJeune 1953 19. I Heard About You Charlene Arthur 1953 20. Have I Waited Too Long Faron Young 1953 21. I’m Crying Holy Unto the Lord Brother Claude Ely 10/53 22. It Don’t Hurt Anymore Hank Snow 12/16/53 23. Lonesome Old Jail D. A. Hunt 5/53 24. Love My Baby Junior Parker 1953 25. You Gotta Be My Baby George Jones 1954 26. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Thelonius Monkk 6/7/54 27. Thrice Upon a Theme (excerpt) Charles Mingus 12/54 28. What’s It All About? Little Leo 1954 Volume 29 1. Too Close to Heaven Bessie Griffin 1954 2. When the Saints Go Marching In Papa Lightfoot 4/17/54 3. I’m So Lonesome Hobo Jack 1954 4. Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down Caudill Family 1954 5. blue Moon of Kentucky Elvis Presley 1954 6. Bonus Pay Pat Hare 5/14/54 7. Don’t Explain Helen Merrill 12/54 8. Eva Lee James Walton ca. 1954 9. Hey Little Girl Billy Emerson 1/11/54 10. Honky Tonk Gal Carl Perkins 1954 11. I Could Love You All the Time Estill Stewart and the Flat Mountain Boys 1954 12. Jolie Tee Caitin Clarence Garlow 1954 13. Lovin’ You JB Hutto 1954 14. No Nights By Myself Sonny Boy Williams 12/12/54 (listen to 2:13!) 15. Prelude to a Kiss Billy Holiday/Jimmy Rowles 1954 16. Choose the One You Want Hoyle Nix 1955 17. Just a Lonely Boy Clifton Chenier 1955 18. Do Lord Deep South Quartet 1955 19. Don’t Cry Baby Little Jimmy Scott 4/22/55 20. Don’t Worry About Me Julie London 1955 21. Downbound Train Chuck Berry 1955 22. God’s Creation Those Golden Bells Gospel Song Birds ca. 1955 23. Hide Me Rock of Ages Speer Family 1955 24. Hidin’ Out Patsy Cline 6/1/55 25. I’m Just a Lonely Guy Little Richard 1955Making Believe Kitty Wells 1955 26. You’re Fer Me Buck Owens 1955 27. Making Believe Kitty Wells 1955 28. Need a Hundred Dollars One String Sam 1955 Volume 30 1. Hottentot Potentate Bobby Short 1955 2. I Woke Up Screaming Bobby Blue Bland 1955 3. I’m in the Mood Nappy Brown 1955 4. Ruby Baby The Drifters 9/19/55 5. She’s Fine She’s Mine Bo Diddley 1955 6. Social Call Betty Carter 5/55 7. When They Ring Those Golden Bells Gospel Song Birds ca. 1955 8. What Happened Last Night Alec Wilder Mundell Lowe 1956 9. You Can Fly High Earl King 12/56 10. Just Wailing Louie Meyers 1956 11. You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To (excerpt) Cecil Taylor 1956 12. Lonesome Train on a Lonesome Track Johnny Burnette Trio 7/2/56 13. My Babe One String Sam 1956 14. No More Abbey Lincoln 1956 15. Ooh-Wow Roy Montrell 8/18/56 16. Sinner’s Cross Roads Slver Quintette ca. 1956 17. Slow Down Cochran Brothers 1956 18. Suzie Q Dale Hawkins 1956 19. There I’ve Said It Again Big Maybelle 7/20/56 20. Three Hours Past Midnight Johnny Guitar Watson 1956 21. The Train That Carried My Girl From Town Vernon Sutphin Cleve Sutphin 1/56 22. Uncloudy Day Staple Singers 9/11/56 23. All On Account of You Speckled Red 1956 24. Baby Don’t Say That No More Jimmy Reed 1956 25. Half as Good a Girl Wanda Jackson 26. Can’t Hardly Stand It Charlie Feathers 1956 27. Could It Be You The Four Tops 1956 28. Crazy Arms Jerry Lee Lewis 1956 Volume 31 1. Black Jack David Warren Smith 1956 2. Crazy Arms Ray Price 3/1/56 3. Death When You Come to Me Moondog 1956 4. East Virginia Blues Stanley Brothers 1956 5. I’m in Love Solomon Burke '56 6. I Don’t Know James Brown 1956 7. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Elizabeth Cotton 1957 8. You Can Bet Your Life (I DO) Esther Phillips 5/2/56 9. Lord I Come to Thee Deacon Leroy Shinault 1956 10. Groaning the Blues Otis Rush 1957 11. Let ‘Em Roll The Midnighters (Hank Ballard) 1957 12. I’ll Weep No More Betty Everett 1957 13. What is This ThIng Called Love Sonny Rollins 1957 14. Wilson Rag Elizabeth Cotton 1957 15. Searchin’ The Coasters 2/15/57 16. Everything Gonna Be All Right Magic Sam 1958 17. Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow Congregation of Mt. Olive Reg. Baptist Church 1959 18. You’ve got to Lose Jackie brenston Ike Turner 1958 19. Respectable Isley Brothers 1959 20. Images Sun Ra and His Arkestra 1958 21. Under the Double Eagle Cowboy Roy Brown ca. 1958 22. Step it Up and Go Ike Everley (unknown date) 23. This is The End Buddy Guy 1958 24. Black Pearls John Coltrane 1958 25. Holiday Hill Wallace Waters 1958 26. Crossroads Paul Bley Don Cherry Ornette Coleman 1958 27. Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby Link Wray 1958 28. Old Time Religion Stovepipe 1960

I struggle with avant warbling, but enjoy Lee much more than Maggie Nichols or Patty Waters (despite a long and personal relationship with Sings). It's an X factor thing: Lee is just much warmer and has less of the proto-arts institution feel that I think Mrs R is picking up on.

2 CD Set Dual Jewel case, booklet and CDs all Mint $9 shipped U.S.

John Waters Boog Powell Hoagy Carmichael

Rollin' Stone contains the first 50 titles (1947-1952) Hoochie Coochie Man has the next 51 titles ((1952-1958) You Shook Me adds 49 titles (1958-1963) This makes a chronological survey of Muddy Waters recordings for Aristocrat / Chess records (1947-1963)

Muddy Waters Hoochie Coochie Man 1952-58 - the next 51 tracks for Chess.

Muddy Waters, Live in Los Angeles 1954 (GNP Crescendo, ten inch). When you are Gene Norman's child and clean out his garage, what you find is a tape of a short live set (five songs) from Muddy Waters (the earliest live recording of the Chicago based Muddy Waters?). No Little Walter (Little George is on harmonica), but Otis Spann and Jimmy Rogers are present. Kippie Moketsi/Hal Singer, Blue Stompin' Erroll Garner/Billy Taylor (Savoy) Archie Shepp, Live in Paris 1974

Pick this one up if you can still find it. If I could have only one blues disc, it would be disc 2 from this set. (It is not a selected compilation as the title might suggest but all of Muddy Waters' first recordings for Chess)

Some spontaneous ideas: - Confessin' The Blues - Jay McShann feat. Walter Brown (reissued on Affinity) - All the post-Basie Jimmy Rushing LPs on Vanguard and Columbia - "Joe Williams Sings Everyday" on Regent (reissued as "Everyday I Have the Blues" in the Savoy Jazz LP series) - Joe Turner "Big Joe Rides Again" (Atlantic) - while I have a hunch that his hit-making record compilations on National and Atlantic might make it into the blues/R&B or even r'n'r racks this late 50s LP might more likely end up in the jazz section. Anyway ... about what you consider "blues", and looking beyond the "low-down sitting in the gutter country blues" clichés, where would you draw the line between blues and R&B? And since you mention "a lover of Muddy Waters" I am not quite if a typical lover of Muddy Waters would't find the above a bit too "slick" ...

TOP TEN FREE JAZZ UNDERGROUND 1. DAVE BURRELL - Echo (BYG 529.320/Actuel Volume 20) In the fall of 1969 Free Jazz was reaching a kind of nadir/nexus. Within the industry it was controversial. Classic traditionalists (beboppers included) were outraged by men in dashikis and sandals jumping on stage and just BLOWING their guts out creating screaming torrents of action. Most musicians involved with this crying anarchy could get no bookings beyond the New York loft set. The French lovers of the avant-garde embraced this African-American scene wholly. This recording is one of many in a series of LP's with consistent design. BYG released classic Free Jazz documents by Archie Shepp (at his wildest), Clifford Thornton, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Grachan Moncur III, Sunny Murray, Alan Silva, Arthur Jones, Dewey Redman and many others. A lot of these cats are present on this recording where from the first groove it sounds like an acoustic tidal wave exploding into shards of dynamite. If you can locate Alan Silva's "Lunar Surface" LP (BYG 529.312/Actuel Vol. 12) you'll find a world even that much more OUT. 2. MILFORD GRAVES & DON PULLEN - Nommo (S.R.P. LP-290) Milford may be one of the most important players in the Free Jazz underground. He enforces the sense of community as a primary exponent of his freely improvised music. His drumkit is home-made and he rarely performs outside of his neighborhood. When he does perform he plays his kit like no other. Wild, slapping, bashing, tribal freak-outs interplexed with silence, serenity and enlightened meditation. This LP was manufactured by the artists in 1967 and is recorded live at Yale University. The interplay between Milford and Don (piano) is remarkable and very free. There's a second volume which also is as rare as hen's teeth. 3. ARTHUR DOYLE Plus 4 - Alabama Feeling (AK-BA AK-1030) Arthur is a strange cat. Not too many people know where he's from (Alabama is a good guess). He resided in New York City in the 70's and showed up in loftspaces spitting out incredible post-Aylerisms. Mystic music which took on the air of chasing ghosts and spirits through halls of mirrors (!). He hooked up with noise/action guitarist Rudolph Grey who was making the current No-Wave scene and with Beaver Harris (drums) they played gigs in front of unsuspecting art creeps apparently not "hip" enough to dig, let alone document, the history blasting their brains. Arthur did release this lo-fi masterpiece and it's a spiraling cry of freedom and fury. AKBA Records released a number of classic NYC loft-jazz sessions, most notably those of label boss Charles Tyler, a screaming tenor player who also blew with Rudolph in the late 70's/early 80's. Arthur continues to play/teach etc. in Binghamton, N.Y. and recently released in 1993 "More Alabama Feeling" on yours truly's Ecstatic Peace label (available from Forced Exposure/POB 9102/Waltham, MA 02254) 4. SONNY MURRAY - Sonny's Time Now (Jihad 663) Sonny was the drummer considered to be the first to realize and recognize and perform, on drums, pure FREE jazz. He played behind and along with Ayler early on and Cecil Taylor. He constructed groups which always flew and raged with spiritual abandon. He took time as an abstract and turned it into free motion. This recording is super-lo-fi and is awesome. On it play Ayler(tenor) and Don Cherry (trumpet) as well as Leroi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) reading a killer poem called "Black Art". This music is very Ayler but more fractured and odd. Like a lot of these records there is only a front cover with the back of the jacket blank. Whether this was done for economic or artistic reasons is unclear. Jihad was a concern of Leroi Jones and anything released on this label is utterly obscure. The only other title I've seen is one just called "BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL" from the mid-60's which is Leroi and friends sitting on the stoops of Harlem chanting, beating drums and celebrating Leroi's "poems" ("The white man/at best/is..corny!") There was an ad for Jihad in an old issue of Jazz & Pop magazine which announced a Don Ayler (Albert's amazing trumpet-playing bro) LP but I've yet to meet anyone who's actually seen this. "Sonny's Time Now" was reissued a few years ago in Japan (DIW-25002) on CD and LP (with an enclosed 7" of two extra scratchy tracks!) but even that is near impossible to locate. Recorded in 1965. 5. THE RIC COLBECK QUARTET - The Sun Is Coming Up (Fontana 6383 001) Issued in the UK only in 1970. Ric was an interesting white cat who came to the U.S. to blow some free e-motion with NYC loft dwellers. He's most well known for his amazing playing on the great Noah Howard's first ESP-Disk release (ESP 1031). The whole 1000 series of ESP is critical & crucial to anybody wanting to explore this era of Free Jazz featuring recordings by Ayler, Ornette, Sonny Simmons, Sun Ra, Henry Grimes, Steve Lacy, Sunny Murray, Marzette Watts, Patty Waters, et al. I'm not including any of these in this list as they're all available on CD now (from Forced Exposure, address above). The picture of Ric on the Noah Howard LP shows a man with race-car shades and a "cool" haircut playing his horn while a ciggie burns nonchalantly from his relaxed grip. A very hip dude. And very FREE. His only solo recording is this Fontana LP which he recorded while cruising through Europe. He connected with South African drummer Selwyn Lissack (whatever happened to...) and the UK's famous avant-altoist Mike Osborne and bassist J.F. 'Jenny' Clark (student of 20th century compositionists Lucian Berio and Karlheinz Stockhausen) to create this exceptional and complex masterpiece 6. JOHN TCHICAI AND CADENTIA NOVA DANICA - Afrodisiaca (MPS CRM711) Tchicai is a 6'6" Danish/Congolese tenor sax player who, in the early 60's, started blowing minds all across the Netherlands with his radical "music for the future". Archie Shepp encouraged him to come to NYC and join like-minded souls of avant-guardia. Tchicai came over and kicked everybodys ass. Leroi Jones shouted his name and talent loudly as Tchicai hooked up with Shepp and Don Cherry for the New York Contemporary Five and later an even heavier ensemble with Milford Graves and Roswell Rudd called the New York Art Quartet. The NYAQ recorded one of the most crucial sessions for ESP-Disk (esp1004) which had Leroi reciting his infamous BLACK DADA NIHILISMUS (available on CD from Forced Exposure). AFRODISIACA was released in Germany (and in other re-release configurations...supposedly) and is Tchicai gathered with 25 other local-Euro musicians playing a hurricane of a piece by trumpet/composer Hugh Steinmetz. This music gets way way out and has the real ability to take you "there". The echo effect on some of this shit is quite ill in a very analog way. And the way the shit gets that dirty-needled distortion at the end of side one (all 25 cats GOING AT IT!) is beautiful, baby, BEAUTIFUL!! 7. RASHIED ALI and FRANK LOWE - Duo Exchange (Survival SR101) Frank Lowe has been studying and playing a consistently developing tenor sax style for a few decades now. At present he's been swinging through a Lester Young trip which can be heard majestically on his Ecstatic Peace recording (E#19..from Forced Exp.) In the early 70's, however, he was a firebrande who snarled and blew hot lava skronk from loft to loft. He played with Alice Coltrane on some of her more out sessions. Rashied Ali was the free-yet-disciplined drummer whom Coltrane enlisted to play alongside Elvin Jones and Pharaoh Sanders (and Alice) in his last mind-bending, space-maniacal recordings (check out surely the Coltrane/Ali duet CD Interstellar Space). Elvin quit the group cuz Rashied was too hardcore. Those were the fuckin' days. And Rashied had his own club downtown NYC called Ali's Alley! Duo Exchange is Rashied and Frank completely going at it and just burning notes and chords where ever they can find 'em. Totally sick. Survival was Rashied's record label which had cool b&w matte sleeves and some crucial releases mostly with his quartet/quintet and a duo session with violinist LeRoy Jenkins. 8. THE PETER BRÖTZMANN SEXTET/QUARTET - Nipples (Calig - CAL30604) The influence of Free Jazz-era Coltrane, Ayler, Esp-disk, Shepp, etc. on hard drinking, knuckle-biting European white cats is formidable. These guys didn't care so much about plaing "jazz" as just totally ripping their guts out with high-energy, brain-plowing NOISE. Brotzmann (sax, German), Evan Parker (sax, UK), Derek Bailey (guitar, UK), and Han Bennink (drums, Dutch) are a few of the spearheaders of this Free-Euro scene and are caught on this insanely rare early document. The b&w cover has a fold-out accordion post card set of personal images of the musicians glued and paperclipped to its front. Brotzmann went on to help further the critical documentation of the Euro-Free-Jazz scene with FMP (Free Music Productions) Records which still exists to this day. There are over a 100 releases on this label of pure Euro-improv and they all offer remarkable moments. Derek Bailey went on to create his own categorically similar Incus Records in the UK which is also still extant. As is the Han Bennink associated I.C.P. (Instant Composers Pool) Records. The most mind-blasting of these recordings may be MACHINE GUN (FMP 24 CD available from NorthCountry Distr./Cadence Bldg./Redwood, NY 13679) where Brotzmann leads an octet through a smashing clanging wonderland of noise. Improvisation and classic western musics are seriously tended to by a large Euro community and it's all pretty fascinating. Check out the works of Alexander von Schlippenbach, Barry Guy & The London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Misha Mengleberg, Peter Kowald, Andre Jaume, Andrea Centazzo, Lol Coxhill and just about anybody who plays with them. 9. THE MARZETTE WATTS ENSEMBLE - (Savoy MG-12193) Marzette was a serious black art cat who resided in downtown NYC when Free Jazz as a NEW cultural revolution was in full gear. He painted and composed wonderful music where some of the coolest locals could flow their flavor. One of the heaviest ESP-disk recordings is Marzette's MARZETTE AND COMPANY (On CD from Forced Exposure) which has the incredible talents of saxist Byard Lancaster (who released an early indie b&w Free Jazz classic out of Philly called LIVE AT MCALLISTER COLLEGE - find it and send it to me..) and guitarist Sonny Sharrock (check his wild influence on Pharaoh Sanders' TAUHID Impulse CD and his own obscure noise guitar masterpiece BLACK WOMAN on Vortex) and cornetist Clifford Thornton (academic NEW MUSIC/Free Jazz "teacher" who released a few crucial sides such as COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK on Third World and THE PANTHER AND THE LASH on America) and the amazing free vocalist Patty Waters (who recorded two infamous hair-raising platters on ESP-Disc). This recording on Savoy was one of a series produced by Bill Dixon, an early associate of Archie Shepp's, who was an incredible composer in his own right. I've heard tapes of Dixon leading Free-Jazz orchestras into sonic symphonic heavens. Very hardcore. This recording I list because of all its obvious loaded references but it's also quite happening and anything with Marzette, Dixon (especially INTENTS AND PURPOSES on RCA Victor), Byard (careful, there's some clinkers) and Clifford is extremely worthwhile. 10. MARION BROWN - In Sommerhausen (Calig 30 605) BLACK ARTISTS GROUP - In Paris, Aries 1973 (BAG 324 000) FRANK WRIGHT QUARTET - Uhuru Na Umoja (America 30 AM 6104) DR. UMEZU-SEIKATSU KOJYO IINKAI - (SKI NO. 1) CECIL TAYLOR - Indent, part 2 (Unit Core 30555) Five way tie for last? Well, seeing as there's no "beginning" or "end" to this shit I have to list as many items as possible just to reiterate the fact that there was (indeed) a ton o' groovy artifactual evidence to support the reality of the existence of FREE MUSIC. Dig? There's used record stores all over the country (the world!) and they all have the potential to be hiding some of these curios amongst the bins and most peeps just ain't sure of their worth and sometimes you can find 'em really cheap. It's definitely a marketplace of the rarefied so when peeps are "hip" to it expect this shit to be way pricey. Marion Brown was/is an alto player who made an incredible LP with Tony Oxley and Maarten Altena called "Porto Novo" that just twists and burns start to finish. Marion could really get on OUT as well as just play straight up. Shepp dug him and got him to do some great LP's on Impulse. He had a septet at one point that was especially remarkable featuring Beaver Harris (drums), Dave Burrell (piano), Grachan Moncur III (bone), and Alan Shorter (trumpet). Alan being Wayne Shorter's (Miles Davis sideman/classicist) brother. Where Wayne was fairly contemporary (though eclectic as a muh'fuck) Alan was strictly ill and has two obscuro LP's worth hunting down: "Orgasm" (Verve V6 8768) and "Tes Estat" (America AM 6118). "In Sommerhausen" is Marion in late 60's exploratory fashion and is quite freaky with the vocal whoops of Jeanne Lee. There's another LP from this period called "Gesprachsfetzen" (Calig CAL 30601) which really lays down the scorch. The Black Artists Group was an unit not unlike that of The Art Ensemble of Chicago. Except they only recorded this one document and it only came out in France on a label named after the group. This is squeaky, spindly stuff and very OPEN and a good indication of what was happening in the early 70's with members Oliver Lake (later of the infamous World Saxophone Quartet) and Joseph Bowie (Art Ensemble's Lester Bowie's bro, later to start Defunkt). Tenor saxist Frank Wright may be (previous to Charles Gayle's current reign) the heir apparent to both Trane and Ayler. Unfortunately he had a heart attack a few years back while rockin' the bandstand. All his recordings are more than worthwhile especially his BYG outing "One For John" (529.336/Actuel Vol. 36), his two ESP sessions (on CD from Forced Exposure) and his Center-of-the-World series of trio recordings with Alan Silva (bass) and Muhammed Ali (drums - Rashied's brother, not the pugilist) on the French label Sun. This LP "Uhuru.." is nothing short of killer with the great Noah Howard (alto), Bobby Few (pianist of Steve Lacy fame) and Art Taylor (heavy old-school drummer in free mode) going OUT and AT IT in stunning reverie. FREE JAZZ of course made a strong impression on the more existential-sensitive populace of Japan. Some real masters came out of the Japanese scene and were influential to some of the more renowned noise artists of today (Boredoms, Haino Keiji). One such Jap-cat is alt-saxist Dr. Umezu who has mixed it up with NYC loft-dwellers on more than one occasion. On this completely obscure, underground release he unleashed some pretty free shit with the likes of William Parker (bass), Ahmed Abdullah (trumpet), and Rashid Shinan (drums). Parker is possibly one of the most important FREE musicians working in NYC. He's got his own constant writing/performing schedule as well as gigs with anyone from Cecil Taylor to Charles Gayle. He recorded one solo LP in the 70's called "Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace" (Centering Records 1001) which is, as you might've guessed, "good". I suppose we should wind things up with the king of FREE MUSIC then and now: Cecil Taylor. Cecil started experimenting with sound, new concepts of "swing", open rhythms and room dynamics very early on. He furthered his adventure with music-conservatory studies and applied a master's technique to his fleeting, furious, highly-sensitive pianistic ACTIONS. Today he's almost shaman-like in his mystic noise transploits. He hates record business weasels after years of scorn and neglect (club owners had been know to beat him up after gigs claiming he damaged their pianos) and records now for the aforementioned artist's label FMP. In the early 70's he had his own label called Unit Core and released two crucial LP's: the one listed above and one titled "Spring of Two Blue J's" (Unit Core 30551). This is when his group included two critical figures on the FREE scene. Alt-saxist Jimmy Lyons (now deceased) was a consistent improviser and a perfect player alongside Cecil as was veteran drummer Andrew Cyrille who recorded his own solo (and duos with the likes of Milford Graves and Peter Brotzmann) LP's on various small labels (BYG, FMP, Ictus). So..that's it...and that's not it. If you're at all intrigued by this personal primer do yourself a favor and seek some of this shit out and free yr fucking mind and yr ass will surely scream and SHOUT. later...............thurston

For those who "saw" this thread earlier, apologies but something went wrong and I had to delete the first post to fix. Thanks to all who participated. Highlight for me was Felser's comments, for sure. Track 1: Straighten Up and Fly Right, from this CD: https://www.discogs.com/release/7932327-Bill-Easley-Business-Mans-Bounce I thought this was a perfect comp starter and personally found his spoken alliterative interjections to be great. But not all did. The other reason I programmed from this CD was that our own Ken Dryden gave it an enthusiastic review on allmusic.com, but it turned out he got nothing from that particular track then or now. Oh well. As Ken may recall the rest of the CD is highly jazz-oriented and I recommend it wholeheartedly. Track 2: Cliff Smalls, untitled blues (Smalls, piano; Leonard Gaskin bass; Oliver Jackson drums) From the Gaskin archive at the Smithsonian, this was recorded January 30 1982 in Belgium. Track 3: Johnny Board, Sweet Georgia Brown Track B2 from this LP: https://www.discogs.com/release/3012034-Joe-Kelly-His-Four-Plus-One-Live-From-The-Chicago-Gold-Coast-Gaslight-Club I was moved to search out this recording after jsngrey's comments in the Sonny Stitt discussion we had back in the summer referencing the Stitt At DJ Lounge Argo recording, and his curiosity about the second saxophone on the date. Its too bad if Chuck really intended to record Board and it never happened as I think a well-produced date with simpatico accompaniment would have been as great or better than the Nessa recording of Eddie Johnson. Here, the leader is more of a trad/dixieland kinda player (not terrible by any stretch, and he did get to record his group a couple of times). Board is great thru out. Track 4: Benny Waters, Blue Moon Track 4 from here: https://www.discogs.com/master/1422776-Benny-Waters-On-The-Sunny-Side-Of-The-Street "Submitted for your approval. Picture a man whose favorite BFT comments are "before my time," "my friend Dan Gould will like/hate this," "I prefer Monk playing Monk," and of course "I love this - can't wait for the reveal." There's the signpost up ahead - you've just crossed over into ... The Felser Might Possibly Like This Zone." </Serling> Track 5: Russell Garcia, composer/arranger Track 1 from: https://www.discogs.com/master/869720-Russell-Garcia-I-Lead-A-Charmed-Life Track 6: Hollyday Brothers, track 2 from: https://www.discogs.com/release/4216569-The-Hollyday-Brothers-Oh-Brother I find it interesting that according to discogs, Medeski was about 8 years from his next recording opportunity at the time this was recording, and I am going to go out on a limb and guess that the Hollyday boys came from money, or that dad was just willing to put money into his boys endeavors. Check out the label output https://www.discogs.com/label/275418-Jazzbeat-Records Chris went back to the family company for his last record in 2018. Track 7 Nat Dixon, track 5 from https://www.discogs.com/release/14250809-Nat-Dixon-Quartet-Harlem-All-Star Check out the group, this guy got some heavyweights to record with him. And, he had the brains to control his publishing and catalog ... all of his records are on his own label. I mentioned that he got profiled in the Times. He went from a career in the public schools to an ordained minister: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/nyregion/preaching-the-gospel-jazz-riffs-and-all.html?searchResultPosition=1 Track 8 Clayton Brothers, track B3 from: https://www.discogs.com/release/5263515-The-Clayton-Brothers-Jeff-John Did it take so long to ID the Clayton Brothers from my hints because Jeff was better know for his alto than his tenor? I was looking thru his entries on discogs and was surprised to see that he hardly played the tenor outside of this recording, which is terrific all the way thru. Track 9 Frank Foster, unknown tune Frank Foster, tenor sax, Georges Arvanitas, piano, Jacky Samson bass, Charles Saurdrais drums Recorded May 10 1968 in Paris, my information called it "Simone" however when looking into the Elvin connection, I found a track on one of the BNs named "Simone" but it didn't seem to be the same. Track 10 Mark Morganelli, A1 from: https://www.discogs.com/release/3860727-Mark-Morganelli-Live-On-Broadway As I mentioned, most obscure but pretty good all around. Morganelli, trumpet, James Spaulding alto, Vic Juris, guitar, John Hicks, piano, Ray Drummond, bass, Billy Hart drums, Gullherme Franco, percussion. (Walter Bishop Jr and Jo Jones Jr guest on one track). < /The Felser Might Possibly Like This Zone> Please note that I programmed this Monk cover at the end of the Felser Might Possibly Like This Zone, owing to my recognition that while he might like Spaulding, he might not like a Monk cover. I could have moved the end of the Felser Zone back by one track but this was how I conceived it so this is how I will ID it. (Glad you enjoyed most of these, John. It's not like I have a deep understanding of what really works for you but I did what I could with what I had.) Track 11 Hal Singer, Track A2 from: https://www.discogs.com/release/8398291-The-Hal-Singer-Jazz-Quartet-Soweto-To-Harlem So curious about this I bought a cassette of it on eBay, delivered all the way from, IIRC, Belgium. Never seen the LP. It was worth it. Track 12 Gene Harris, number 8 from https://www.discogs.com/master/2113561-The-Gene-Harris-Quartet-Brotherhood Track 13 Percy France, The Man I Love, France, tenor saxophone, Cliff Smalls, piano, Leonard Gaskin bass, Oliver Jackson drums. Also from the same Belgium concert as track 2. Normally the group played it as a ballad all the way thru, making this master class in tenor playing (Felser's comments notwithstanding) a unique and memorable performance.

Details of WKCR Schaap Tribute posted. (I've bolded what is most important to me, I am desperately hoping for a Percy France show but anything from the West End is likely to be memorable.) PHIL SCHAAP TRIBUTE BROADCAST FEBRUARY 1ST - FEBRUARY 6TH 2022 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2022 - 6:00PM TO SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2022 - 11:59PM WKCR presents a 126-hour long Phil Schaap tribute broadcast, beginning 6pm Tuesday February 1st and running continuously for five full days through midnight, Sunday February 6. Phil passed away on September 7, 2021 at the age of 70. For over 50 years he was the guiding light and spiritual leader of jazz programming at our radio station. His death affected us all dearly, but we have gathered ourselves to honor him the way he taught us to do for all jazz luminaries, with a long running in depth radio broadcast. The Tribute will touch on all aspects of Phil’s career, but especially his radio broadcasts. As the cornerstone of the Tribute, we will be playing Phil’s most popular shows from the WKCR archives, such as Traditions In Swing, Birthday Broadcasts, Phil’s interviews with jazz legends, Bird Flight, Out To Lunch, and excerpts from our Festivals. The program will also feature some of Phil’s contributions to other aspects of the jazz community, as an educator, record producer, sound engineer, record vault researcher, concert producer at the West End Cafe, and so much more. We will play representative musical selections to acknowledge these many activities. Furthermore, the program will allow us to reminisce in tempo to include interviews with figures from the jazz world, panel discussions with WKCR colleagues from across the decades, testimonials from listeners, and other features. Tune into 89.9 FM NY and stream on wkcr.org to join us in the celebration. Programming Schedule: (Please note all times are approximate) TUESDAY 2/1 6:00 PM: Jazz Alternatives with Sharif Abdus-Salaam from 9/16/2021, where Phil Schaap is interviewed by Sharif Abdus-Salaam 9:00 PM: Jazz Profiles 50th Anniversary, originally broadcast 2/2/2020 WEDNESDAY 2/2 12:00 AM: Bird Flight from 12/7/2017, Phil explores Charlie Parker's first issued records, the Decca singles of Jay McShann and His Orchestra. 1:15 AM: Bird Flight from 8/2/2018, Phil explores the recordings of the June 22, 1945 Town Hall concert that featured Diz and Bird. 2:45 AM: WKCR DJ Sam Seliger plays selected recordings produced by Phil Schaap 5:00 AM: Bird Flight from 3/27/2018, this show begins a series focusing on Charlie Parker's working band, the Golden Era BeBop 5, and the recordings of their broadcasts from the Royal Roost in 1948 and 1949. 6:20 AM: Bird Flight from 4/3/2018, this show continues a series focusing on Charlie Parker's working band, the Golden Era BeBop 5, and the recordings of their broadcasts from the Royal Roost in 1948 and 1949. 7:40 AM: Bird Flight from 12/1/2014, part one of a Bird Flight pair focusing on the relationship between Bird and fellow Bop alto saxophonist Sonny Criss. Their performance of "Liza" recorded June 16, 1952, at The Tradewinds, Inglewood,C.A., is explored. 9:00 AM: Bird Flight from 12/3/2014, part two of a Bird Flight pair focusing on the relationship between Bird and fellow Bop alto saxophonist Sonny Criss. Their performance of "Liza" recorded June 16, 1952, at The Tradewinds, Inglewood,C.A., is explored. 10:30 AM: Matthew Rivera interviews Phil Schaap, intermixed with some recordings Phil produced 12:00 PM: Out to Lunch from 1/21/2013, Phil celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by playing the earliest integrated Jazz records. 3:30 PM: Festival Archival featuring Howard McGhee 5:00 PM: Festival Archival featuring Earle Warren 6:00 PM: Festival Archival featuring Roy Eldridge 6:30 PM: Traditions in Swing from 10/28/2017, the first in a 16 part series of shows covering the complete recorded works of tenor saxophonist Leon "Chu" Berry, with the solos excerpted and recordings played in best sound. 9:30 PM: Matthew Rivera interviews bandleader and bassist Vince Giordano. 10:30 PM: Phil Schaap, a retrospective: Part 1. Join WKCR alumni Sharif Abdus-Salaam, Elliot Bratton, Mitch Goldman, William Goldberg, Sid Gribetz, Eddie Karp, Jamie Katz, Cliff Preiss, and Ed Scarvalone for a conversation reflecting on the life and work of Phil Schaap. THURSDAY 2/3 12:30 AM: WKCR DJ Maria Shaughnessy plays selected recordings produced by Phil Schaap 3:00 AM: Bird Flight from 11/17/2010, the first of a six part series on the Norman Granz record date of early spring 1949 which produced recordings of "Cardboard" and "Visa". 4:20 AM: Bird Flight from 11/18/2010, the second of a six part series on the Norman Granz record date of early spring 1949 which produced recordings of "Cardboard" and "Visa". 5:40 AM: Bird Flight from 11/19/2010, the third of a six part series on the Norman Granz record date of early spring 1949 which produced recordings of "Cardboard" and "Visa". 7:00 AM: Bird Flight from 11/23/2010, the fourth of a six part series on the Norman Granz record date of early spring 1949 which produced recordings of "Cardboard" and "Visa". 8:20 AM: Bird Flight from 11/24/2010, the fifth of a six part series on the Norman Granz record date of early spring 1949 which produced recordings of "Cardboard" and "Visa". 9:40 AM: Bird Flight from 11/29/2010, the last of a six part series on the Norman Granz record date of early spring 1949 which produced recordings of "Cardboard" and "Visa". 11:00 AM: Selected listener and alumni tributes to Phil, intermixed with recordings produced by Phil 11:30 AM: Out to Lunch from 2/29/2016, Phil presents a show on soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's earliest record dates as a leader. 2:45 PM: Festival Archival, in anticipation of the Billie Holiday Centennial Broadcast, Phil explores the early recordings of one of her most important influences, Ethel Waters. 6:00 PM: Traditions in Swing from 5/6/2017, the first of a five part series on the complete recordings of Herschel Evans, tenor saxophonist in the original Count Basie Orchestra, with a focus on the items on which he is featured. 9:10 PM: Sid Gribetz interviews drummer Kenny Washington 10:10 PM: Phil Schaap, a retrospective: Part 2. Join WKCR alumni Paul Burkey, Mitch Goldman, Charles Iselin, Cliff Preiss, Matthew Rivera, and Stephen Seliger for a conversation reflecting on the life and work of Phil Schaap. FRIDAY 2/4 12:00 AM: WKCR DJ Schuyler Rabbin-Birnbaum plays recordings produced by Phil Schaap, Schuyler will be playing two Duke Ellington Reissues: “Ellington at Newport 1956” and “Such Sweet Thunder.” 3:00 AM: WKCR DJ Matthew Rivera plays selected recordings produced by Phil Schaap 6:00 AM: WKCR DJ Ed Scarvalone plays selected recordings produced by Phil Schaap 9:00 AM: WKCR DJ Paul Burkey plays selected recordings produced by Phil Schaap, Paul will be playing Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall and the 9/18/49 Jazz at the Philharmonic concert 12:00 PM: WKCR DJ Charles Iselin plays selected recordings produced by Phil Schaap, Charles will be playing Louis Armstrong Hot fives and sevens recordings. 3:00 PM: WKCR DJ Sid Gribetz plays selected recordings produced by Phil Schaap, Sid will be presenting the Benny Carter Verve reissues, Jimmy Rushing, and "Bird at the Roost." 6:00 PM: WKCR DJ Cliff Preiss plays selected recordings produced by Phil Schaap, Cliff will be playing the reissues of Flip Phillips and Machito and his Orchestra, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Johnny Hodges, and Kenny Kersey. 9:00 PM: “Live from The West End” - WKCR DJ Josh Kazali plays selected recordings produced by Phil Schaap including Benny Waters, Earle Warren and the Count’s Men, plus Phil produced “Jazz Session 45s” SATURDAY 2/5 12:00 AM: WKCR Alumnus and guest DJ Louise Dubin shares stories about Phil Schaap and plays four Charlie Parker tracks produced by Phil. 12:25 AM: TBA 1:40 AM: WKCR DJ Schuyler Rabbin-Birnbaum plays selected recordings produced by Phil Schaap 5:00 AM: Bird Flight from 7/08/2011, the first of a four part series on the first edition of Charlie Parker with Strings and its influences. 6:10 AM: Bird Flight from 7/15/2011, the second of a four part series on the first edition of Charlie Parker with Strings and its influences. 7:30 AM: Bird Flight from 7/20/2011, the third of a four part series on the first edition of Charlie Parker with Strings and its influences. 8:50 AM: Bird Flight from 7/21/2011, the last of a four part series on the first edition of Charlie Parker with Strings and its influences. 10:10 AM: Selected listener and alumni tributes to Phil, intermixed with recordings produced by Phil 11:00 AM: Phil Schaap, a retrospective: Part 3. Join WKCR alumni Kevin Costa, Martin Johnson, and Loren Schoenberg for a conversation reflecting on the life and work of Phil Schaap. 12:00 PM: Out to Lunch from 1/2/2017, for the first Out To Lunch of 2017, Phil celebrates the music of pianist and composer Herbie Nichols on the day before his 98th birthday. 3:15 PM: Festival Archival from 3/9/2019, on this edition of the Birthday Broadcast, Phil presents the earliest live and studio recordings of Ornette Coleman. 6:45 PM: Traditions in Swing 6/30/2018, Phil explores the innovative and great early arrangements for the saxophone section by Benny Carter on record. 10:00 PM: Traditions in Swing from 11/3/2018, Phil pays tribute to the pioneering bassist Jimmie Blanton on the 79th anniversary of his joining Duke Ellington's orchestra and a few weeks after his centennial. SUNDAY 2/6 1:15 AM: WKCR DJ Amiri Tulloch plays selected recordings produced by Phil Schaap 4:00 AM: Bird Flight from 1/4/2016, the first of a six part series on the famed concert at Massey Hall given May 15, 1953. This show provides an overview of the concert. 5:10 AM: Bird Flight from 1/8/2016, the second of a six part series on the famed concert at Massey Hall given May 15, 1953. This show provides an overview of the concert. 6:10 AM: Bird Flight from 1/13/2016, the third of a six part series on the famed concert at Massey Hall given May 15, 1953. This show provides an overview of the concert. 7:30 AM: Bird Flight from 1/15/2016, the fourth of a six part series on the famed concert at Massey Hall given May 15, 1953. This show provides an overview of the concert. 8:50 AM: Bird Flight from 1/19/2016, the fifth of a six part series on the famed concert at Massey Hall given May 15, 1953. This show provides an overview of the concert. 10:05 AM: Bird Flight from 1/22/2016, the last of a six part series on the famed concert at Massey Hall given May 15, 1953. This show provides an overview of the concert. 11:25 AM: Eddie Karp interviews Jim Eigo 12:00 PM: Out to Lunch from 6/20/2011, Phil on Bill Challis 2:40 PM: Out to Lunch from 2/15/2016, in an annual tradition, Phil plays the music of The President on President's Day, this time presenting the evolution of Lester Young's style over his recorded career. 5:50 PM: Traditions in Swing from 9/6/2017, in the first in a series of shows focusing on the early dawn of recorded Jazz, Phil features the music of the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band. 9:05 PM: To close out the Phil Schaap Tribute Broadcast, listen to tracks selected by our alumni which celebrate the life of Phil Schaap.

I have the following CDs for sale, shipping is € 5,70 unregistered for 1/2 cd in EU, € 8,60 unregistered for 1/2 cd overseas. Ask for multiple purchase, I may arrange a registered shipping in EU with UPS at low price. All CD and booklet are NM, I do not consider jewel case relevant in grading, but I'll ship with it. Paypal or bank transfert. Thanks for looking. Scolohofo (Scofield/Holland/Lovano/Fosters) ‎– Oh!, BN € 4 The John Scofield Band - Up All Night, Verve Records € 4 Sonny Rollins ‎– A Night At The Village Vanguard (Complete 2 CD), RVG BN € 6 Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time, RVG Blue Note € 4 Miles Davis - Volume 1, RVG Blue Note € 4 Miles Davis - Volume 2, RVG Blue Note € 4 Jimmy Smith - Groovin' At Smalls' Paradise (2xCD) RVG Blue Note € 5 Jimmy Smith - A New Sound...A New Star... Jimmy Smith At The Organ Vol. 1-3 (2xCD), Blue Note € 7 Louis Sclavis - Dans La Nuit, ECM Records € 6 Kenny Dorham - Whistle Stop, RVG Blue Note € 4 Candido - Beautiful, Blue Note € 4 Grant Green - Grant's First Stand, Blue Note € 4 Stanley Turrentine - Never Let Me Go, RVG Blue Note € 5 Syzygys - Eyes On Green (Syzygys Live At Tokyo Inkstick 1988),Tzadik € 7 John Lee Hooker - Alternative Boogie : Early Studio Recordings 1948-1952 (3xCD) Capitol Records. € 7 John Lurie - African Swim And Manny & Lo: Two Film Scores, Strange & Beautiful Music € 10 Nils Petter Molvær - Khmer, ECM Records € 5 Nils Petter Molvær - Solid Ether, ECM Records € 5 Louis Sclavis Sextet - Les Violences De Rameau, ECM Records € 8,50 David Darling - Journal October, ECM Records € 8,50 Tin Hat Trio - Helium (HDCD), Angel Records € 4 Gavin Bryars - Hilliard Ensemble, Fretwork - Cadman Requiem, Point Music € 6 Elif Çağlar - Misfit, Nu-Dc Records € 6 Luis Agudo & Friends* - Dona Fia, Red Record € 5,50 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Cow Fingers & Mosquito Pie, Epic € 4 Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Play The Blues, Rhino Records € 4 Abdullah Ibrahim - African Suite for Trio and String Orchestra, Tiptoe € 4 Muddy Waters - His Best 1947 To 1955, Chess € 4 Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters At Newport 1960, Chess € 4 Muddy Waters - Electric Mud, Chess € 6 Eric Mingus - Um...Er...Uh..., Some Records € 4 Medeski Martin & Wood - Tonic, Blue Note € 4 Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, Impulse! (minor wear on digipack) € 4 Charles Mingus - Lionel's Sessions, Universe € 5 Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings (2xCD) Legacy, Columbia € 7 Sex Mob - Din Of Inequity, Columbia, Knitting Factory Works € 5 Sex Mob - Dime Grind Palace, Ropeadope Records € 4 Rev. Gary Davis - The Complete Early Recordings, Yazoo € 5 Reverend Gary Davis - Say No To The Devil, Original Blues Classics € 5 Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds, Original Jazz Classics, Prestige (ZYX 20 bit) € 5 Randy Weston - African Nite, Owl Records € 4 Michel Portal - Minneapolis, Universal Music Jazz France € 7 Michel Portal - Minneapolis We Insist !, Universal Music France € 9 Mephista (2) - Black Narcissus, Tzadik € 6 Keith Jarrett - Fort Yawuh, Impulse! Digipack € 4 Dexter Gordon - Settin' The Pace, Savoy Jazz € 5 Codona - Codona, ECM Records € 7 The Bill Frisell Band - Where In The World?, Elektra Nonesuch € 6 Bill Frisell - Is That You?, Elektra Nonesuch € 4 John Coltrane • Eric Dolphy - European Impressions, Bandstand € 4 Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings, Legacy Columbia € 4 Duke Ellington And His Orchestra Featuring Mahalia Jackson - Black, Brown And Beige, Columbia Legacy € 4 Howlin' Wolf - Going Down Slow (5xCD) Roots (6) € 12 Shelly Manne & His Men - At The Black Hawk, Vol. 5, Original Jazz Classics € 5 Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Harold Arlen Song Book (2xCD) Verve Records (minor wear on digipack) € 6 BOX SET: Miles Davis - Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951–1956 (8xCD) Prestige (LP size box, conservatively grade, booklet in excellent condition, few hairlines on a couple of cds, jewel cases used, minor flaws due to storage on box) € 27

Humair / Jeanneau / Texier - Akagera (Disques JMS, 1982) I don't know Fresu's work as a leader either -- but I love his playing with Aldo Romano's quartet. Specifically: - Ritual (Owl, 1988) - To Be Ornette to Be (Owl, 1989) - Dreams & Waters (Owl, 1991)

I dusted off my 40th anniversary copy of Woodstock to watch with my 18 year old son. It was his first time watching and while answering his many questions along the way I realized that I wanted to know more about the event myself. So I ordered a book which broke down each performance by length of set, time of set, and setlist. I was familiar with most artists but for some reason while reading the book shown below the section on Keef Hartley piqued my interest. Although I'm typically wary of groups led by drummers I sprang for this 7 CD set for about $40 and I'm very pleasantly surprised. At times the group exudes a Blood Sweat and Tears vibe (You Can't Take it With You from the live record) while the flute feature "Hickory" has an airy jazz vibe. There is also plenty of solid blues-based classic rock material included as well. Curious if anyone else is hip to this music or interested in testing the waters.

Got it! Along with two other collections from the same series about Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim, and Lightnin Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry and Big Joe Williams. Very good, though I still haven't listened to the other two. The T-Bone Walker alone is 3 CDs. And the Mabern must be something else. I once saw him in a jazz cellar here in town accompanying the Eric Alexander Quartet.

The good news. A new Blues Images calendar and CD will soon be available. The bad news. It is billed as the Last one. https://bluesimages.com/ NOW SHIPPING: OUR LAST BLUES CALENDAR! Welcome to our 2023 Blues Calendar with FREE CD! Featuring "Funny Paper" Smith's UNHEARD song! NOW SHIPPING: Our 2023 Blues Calendar with FREE Vol. 20 CD! 25 Songs Restored using the American Epic Sound Restoration Technique! Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Playboy Fuller, Irene Scruggs, Little Brother Montgomery and many others HAVE NEVER SOUNDED BETTER! including... Edith North Johnson's MISSING PARAMOUNT – You'll LOVE it!! Track Listings: 1. Run, Mollie, Run • Henry Thomas 2. No More Ball And Chain • Joshua White 3. Shipwreck Blues • Bessie Smith 4. Old Rounder’s Blues • Funny Paper Smith 5. Balky Mule Blues • Blind Lemon Jefferson 6. Blake’s Worried Blues • Blind Blake 7. Worn Down Daddy Blues • Ida Cox 8. Lexington Kentucky Blues • Papa Charlie Jackson 9. Big Boy Blues • Ma Rainey 10. Blue Devil Blues • Texas Alexander 11. Poor Me • Charley Patton 12. A Sermon On A Silver Dollar • Brother Fullbosom 13. Moses Go Down To Pharaoland • Brother Fullbosom 14. Gonna Play My Guitar – A Letter To Muddy Waters • Playboy Fuller 15. Freight Train In The Morning [Unreleased] • Playboy Fuller 16. Sugar Cane Highway Alternate Take [Studio Chatter] • Playboy Fuller 17. Going Back To Mobile [Unreleased] • Playboy Fuller 18. Mr. Charlie – Test [Unreleased] • Pete Franklin 19. Springtime Blues • Scrapper Blackwell 20. St. Louis Woman Blues – Test, Take 1 [Unreleased] • Irene Scruggs with Little Brother Montgomery 21. St. Louis Woman Blues – Test, Take 2 [Unreleased] • Irene Scruggs with Little Brother Montgomery 22. Beat You Doing It • Edith North Johnson 23. Whispering To My Man • Edith North Johnson 24. Ain’t Gonna Worry My Life Any More [Unreleased] • Memphis Willie Borum 25. I’m Going Away Blues • Frank Stokes

There was a light-hearted yet interesting story recently in The New Yorker about France and its tradition of hydrotherapy, aka "thermal cures". Read it and tell me: Does it work? Does it not work? It's all subjective: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/30/seeking-a-cure-in-frances-waters