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VA - 1993 - Rare Country Blues (1928-1937)

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Rare Country Blues (1928-1937)



Artist: Various Artists
Title: Rare Country Blues (1928-1937)
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Label: Document Records
Catalog: DOCD-5170
Genre: Blues
Styles: Country Blues, Acoustic Blues, Early American Blues
Duration: 1:16:19

Liner notes by Keith Briggs (Copyright 1993: Document Records, Austria)

This CD focuses attention on some of the lesser known artists of the pre-war period who recorded maybe only once or twice but who are none the less interesting for that. Their backgrounds, both musical and personal, are widely divergent and most are biographical blanks, what little that is known about them being gleaned from record company files or construed from their recordings.
Although his only two pre-war recordings were made in New York, according to the researches of Kip Lornell Seth Richard seems likely to have been from Bedford County, Virginia. He also seemed to have been identified with the raggy "Skoodeldum-Doo" to such an extent that when he got a chance to record again in 1943, this time for the Regis label in New Jersey, he used the term for a pseudonym, performing with a harmonica player as Skoodle Dum Doo and Sheffield.
Similarly, despite being recorded in Memphis in 1928 Charlie Kyle was a Texas singer who probably attended the session in the company of those tough members of the Dallas demi-monde, Bessie Tucker and Ida Mae Mack. He seems to have been one of the older men being recorded around this time; a representative of the "songster" tradition. Of the six tracks cut during his only session two remained "in the can" and he returned to the obscurity from which he had emerged.
If little is known about Charlie Kyle, at least we have a name that might be his real one; the singer of "Indian Squaw Blues" denies us even that familiarity, hiding behind the pseudonym Freezone. This was his only issued recording and shared a disc with the Texas pianist Raymond Barrow's "Walking Blues".
William Harris, one of several singers of that name, betrays his Mississippi roots on the two tracks issued from his 1930 Chicago session for Brunswick. Particularly worthy of note is the driving slide guitar backing he supplies to "Never Drive a Stranger from Your Door", a variation of the standard "Make Me Up a Pallet on Your Floor". Prior to this Brunswick had issued a 78 under Harris' name, one side of which featured the comedic "What Makes a Tom Cat Blue?", a song far removed from the rural
roots of the later coupling. The flip side of this disc, "West Side Blues", recorded at a different session from "Tom Cat", is really a showcase for a pianist who is probably Charles Avery.
Avery is also speculated to be the pianist who appears on the Leola Manning recordings cut in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1929. Manning, who sounded something like Memphis Minnie, was another off-centre artist who recorded religious songs in a blues setting. If the title "He Fans Me" brings to mind the overheated efforts of Frankie Jaxon the illusion fails when Manning quotes Matthew 3:11 as her source. Actually Matthew 3:12 would be more accurate; in it, John the Baptist refers to Jesus "whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather his wheat into his garner; but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire".
Tommy Settles (or possibly Settlers) used the name Jazzbo Tommy and his Paramount titles referred to his use of a "blue moaner". Both terms disguise the fact that he actually considered himself a virtuoso on that most disparaged of all instruments, the kazoo! How justified he was in this conceit is a matter for your personal assessment.




Seth Richard:

01 - Lonely Seth blues
02 - Skoodeldum doo

Charlie Kyle:

03 - Kyle`s worried blues
04 - Monkey-man blues
05 - Walking blues
06 - No baby

Freezone:

07 - Indian squaw blues

Willie Harris:

08 - West side blues
09 - What makes a tom cat blue?
10 - Lonesome midnight dream
11 - Never drive a stranger from your door

Leola Manning:

12 - He cares for me
13 - He fans me
14 - The arcade building moan
15 - Satan is busy in Knoxville
16 - Laying in the graveyard
17 - The blues is all wrong

Tommy Settlers And His Blue Moaner:

18 - Low down blues moan - part I
19 - Low down blues moan - part II
20 - Shawking weed blues
21 - Bed blues blues (big bed bug)

Tommy Settlers With Ezekiel Lowe And Lee Bunkley:

22 - Pearlie Mae blues
23 - Don`t want you no more

Jazzbo Tommy and His Lowlanders:

24 - You don`t mean me no good
25 - Blaze face cow



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