Styles: Pre-War Country Blues, Jug Band, Early Jazz
Label: Yazoo
Released: 1991
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 100,0 MB
Time: 42:35
Art: front + back
1. Please Don't Holler Mama - 3:04
2. Try And Treat Her Right - 2:21
3. You're Ticklin' Me - Take 1 - 3:11
4. Love Blues - 3:09
5. Blue Guitar Stomp - 3:01
6. If You Can't Make It Easy, Sweet Mama - 2:41
7. National Blues - Take 3 - 2:43
8. Barefoot Stomp - 3:18
9. Bye Bye Blues - 2:55
10. Hey! I Am Blue - 2:53
11. Clef Club Stomp - 3:12
12. Dance Hall Shuffle - 3:14
13. You'd Better Leave Me Alone, Sweet Papa - 3:19
14. Everybody Wants My Tootelum - 3:25
1927-28 (rec); 1976 (comp); 1991 (reissue)
Personnel:
Clifford Hayes - Violin (all except 9,11), Alto Sax (9,11)
Cal Smith - Banjo (4,7,13), Guitar (all except 13)
Fred Smith - Guitar (1,2)
Johnny Gatewood - Piano (4,6,8,9,11,13)
Earl Hines - Piano (3,10,12,14)
Dan Briscoe - Piano (5,7)
Earl McDonald - Jug (1,2,4,6,7,13)
Hess Grundy - Trombone (3-5,7-14)
Lockwood Lewis - Alto Sax (4,7,13)
George Allen - Soprano Sax (4,7,13), Alto Sax (4,7,13), Clarinet (1,2)
Elizabeth Washington - Vocals (4,13)
William B. Ferguson - Vocal (1,2)
Prince LaVaughn - Vocals (6)
Notes: The Louisville, Kentucky-based Dixieland Jug Blowers were one of the first jug bands to record. Led by violinist Clifford Hayes and jug player Earl McDonald, the Chicago-based group, which featured clarinetist Johnny Dodds, left a legacy of twenty-three tracks, including "Boodle Am Shake", "Memphis Shake" and "Skit, Skat, Doodle-Do", recorded between December 1926 and June 1927. Recording as the Louisville Jug Band, they cut such tunes as "She's In The Graveyard Now".
South Carolina-born McDonald moved to Louisville, at the age of two, in 1885. He formed the Louisville Jug Band while still in high school. The product of a musical family, Glasgow, Kentucky-born Hayes moved to Jeffersonville, Indiana in his teens. He joined McDonald's band in 1913.
Although McDonald and Hayes formally separated, over financial conflicts, by 1919, they continued to hire each other to play on recordings and live performances. ~ Craig Harris
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