Various Artists - Dick Spottswood and Tompkins Square Present ... 1925 Songs (Various Artists) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Blues

Dick Spottswood is a legendary musicologist with deep knowledge of early jazz, blues, international, and vernacular American music from the first half of the 20th Century. He has contributed notes and transfers of records from his collection to hundreds of influential reissue albums on many labels over the decades. Spottswood teams up with Tompkins Square to offer a selective view of our favorite 78 rpm sides from 1925, a pivotal year in the development of jazz, blues and early country music. Album Tracks 1. Dora Carr - Cow Cow Blues 2. Rosa Lee Carson - the Drinker's Child 3. Wheat Street Female Quartet - Go Down, Moses 4. WM. B. Houchens and J.M. Houchin - Fisher's Hornpipe and Opera Reel 5. Old Southern Jug Band - Hatchet Head Blues 6. Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Sherman Valley 7. Tweedy Brothers - Cripple Creek 8. Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Kater Street Rag 9. Brownlee's Orchestra of New Orleans - Peculiar 10. Charlie Jackson - Drop That Sack 11. Jimmy O'Bryant's Washboard Band - Hot Hot Hottentot 12. Hersal Thomas - Suitcase Blues 13. Deacon L.J. Bates - All I Want Is That Pure Religion 14. Seminole Syncopators - Sailing on Lake Pontchartrain 15. Osey Helton - Cacklin' Hen 16. Ernest Helton - Royal Clog 1. Dr. James Roach - Gue Gue Solingaie 2. R.B. Smith & S.J. Allgood - American and Spanish Fandango 3. Hitch's Happy Harmonists - Washboard Blues 4. Lonnie Johnson - Mr. Johnson's Blues 5. Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs - Grandpa's Spells 6. Ida Cox - How Can I Miss You When I've Got Dead Aim 7. Bix & His Rhythm Jugglers - Davenport Blues 8. Clifford's Lousiville Jugband - Struttin' the Blues 9. Homer Davenport & Young Brothers - the Fox Chase (Reel) 10. Lem Fowler's Washboard Wonders - Salty Dog 11. Sonny Clay's Plantation Orchestra - Jambled Blues 12. Land Norris - Dogwood Mountain

Various Artists

Dick Spottswood and Tompkins Square Present ... 1925 Songs (Various Artists)

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