The Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band - Junior Prom - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Drummer Billy Hart is joined by pianist Walter Bishop and bassist George Mraz on this 1978 recording.

A popular attraction on the Dixieland scene for decades starting in the early 1930's, trumpeter Yank Lawson joined forces in the 1950's with top bassist Bob Haggart, one of the last survivors of Bob Crosby's legendary Bobcats; to form the Lawson Haggart Band - cementing a musical partnership that lasted over 40 years. Their classic 1960 audiophile recording InchDixieland Goes WestInch can be described as a Dixieland meets Western Swing affair and features the classics InchOle Buttermilk Sky,Inch InchI'm An Old CowhandInch and InchYellow Rose of TexasInch. All selections have been newly remastered.

The history of the struggles of workers in Wisconsin is replete with examples of miserable working conditions and violence directed towards strikers, countered by the courage and determination of union workers. Larry Penn and Darryl Holter chronicle this history through songs of their own composition, as well as songs by Woody Guthrie and others. Darryl Holter, originally from Minneapolis, first became a union organizer while a student at the University of Minnesota. He is still musically active his most recent album is 2010's West Bank Gone. Larry Penn, a truck driver all his working life, is Milwaukee's most enduring folk singer/songwriter. Thirty-four pages of liner notes provide detailed background information about each song's history and complete song lyrics.